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.
Yahoo is playing host to thousands of phishing sites and doesn't have sufficiently well-trained staff to address the problem of online fraud, according to a leading anti-spam and security organisation on Tuesday.
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.
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.
Google's popular free Web-based e-mail service is testing phishing protection designed to alert users to potential e-mail fraud attacks.
Security experts are warning that an email claiming to contain a video of Osama Bin Laden's reaction to the US election result contains a worm. The email is signed by The Hobbit.
special report Phishing attacks may have slowed, but their sophistication is increasing at a rapid pace.
A coalition aiming to junk e-mail unites behind a US law but stumbles over a technology solution.
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.
It is vital that the tech industry raises awareness of the scale of the problem of junk e-mail, industry experts said.
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