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.
Banks and other financial institutions need to do more to beat the problem of identity theft, according to a leading information security expert.
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.
An Internet standards group has approved two "experimental" antispam proposals, sidestepping a controversy dividing Microsoft and its e-mail competitors.
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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.
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.
The Apache Foundation pulls support for the anti-spam technology because of Microsoft's licence requirements.
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