An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo for months, awaiting the software giant's go-ahead on certain patent-related issues.
Internet security experts are gathering at a secretive conference later this week to strategise in their fight against cybercriminals.
The promise of e-mail authentication is too good to ignore, but if it is implemented incorrectly it will break a company's mail system instead of fixing it, experts have cautioned.
Bill Gates' prediction of January 2004 that spam would be "a thing of the past" within two years has virtually no chance of coming true, according to security company Sophos this week.
A long-awaited update to Microsoft's Exchange 2003 mail server has been released, with the key enhancement being the ability to push new e-mail directly to mobile devices.
Peter Cullen, the company's chief privacy strategist, explains how Sender ID can take a bite out of spam and phishing.
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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.
It is vital that the tech industry raises awareness of the scale of the problem of junk e-mail, industry experts said.
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks whether the tech industry is only kidding itself about what it will take to fight the plague.
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