Yahoo and AOL's plans to charge trusted marketers a fee in order to allow their e-mail messages to bypass spam filters has been slammed by security experts and snubbed by Australia's largest online media company, ninemsn.
Google on Tuesday said it is now using an email authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.
If you use Yahoo Mail you should soon be seeing a significant reduction in the number of e-mail scams purporting to be from eBay and PayPal.
Yahoo Mail is letting users sign up with the ymail.com and rocketmail.com domains in an attempt to attract new users and keep existing users loyal.
An engineer who helped develop a new antispam technology called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) said it's not a foolproof way to keep nasty e-mails out of your inbox, but it is a step in the right direction.
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The world's e-mail network is no longer the friendly place it once was and authentication could mean the end for the platform as we know it.
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