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• Danger: Authenticating e-mail can break it

  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.

• Security guru urges banks to beat ID theft

  Banks and other financial institutions need to do more to beat the problem of identity theft, according to a leading information security expert.

• Sender ID's fading message

  At the start of last year, Bill Gates told the world's elite at an annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, that the problem of spam would be solved in two years.

• Antispam proposals advance

  An Internet standards group has approved two "experimental" antispam proposals, sidestepping a controversy dividing Microsoft and its e-mail competitors.

• Splintering on spam

  Information and communications technology (ICT) companies and governments are planning to drive their anti-spam efforts to new heights later this year. But will they founder in a sea of conflicting standards?

Features and Case Studies (9)

• Stamping out spam

  The tactical battle between Web users and spammers is stepping up a gear. We look at what is being done to bring an end the endless avalanche of junk email before we're all buried by it.

• The end of e-mail?

  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.

• Microsoft-backed antispam spec gets filtered out

  A Microsoft-backed proposal for verifying the source of e-mail has been shelved by the Internet engineers working to turn it from specification to standard, in a final blow for antispam technology Sender ID.

• Apache, open-source groups wary of Sender ID

  The Apache Foundation pulls support for the anti-spam technology because of Microsoft's licence requirements.

• Can e-mail survive?

  E-mail has taken a battering over the last year or so with mountains of spam and viruses delivered to our mailboxes daily. Can the problem be fixed, and can e-mail still be free?

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