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RSS sender idMicrosoft CEO Ballmer: Security battle is never-ending
News Microsoft has had less luck in getting its Sender ID email standard for stopping spam accepted by the rest of the industry; it was rejected last month by major players such as AOL. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the task of trying to stay one... [03 Oct 2004]
Microsoft email 'caller ID' questioned
News Open source software groups, including those that manage the development of the Apache web server and the Debian distribution of Linux, took umbrage with Microsoft's lack of clarity on issues of the company's intellectual property claims on the... [14 Sep 2004]
Microsoft forges ahead with anti-spam sender ID scheme
News Microsoft is holding a summit with members of the Email Service Provider Coalition to address the use of Sender ID technology as a standard to fight spam and phishing. The software giant said it would gather more than 80 members of the ESPC... [13 Aug 2004]
Microsoft double whammy hammers spam
News Microsoft announced last week that it has combined its Caller ID proposal with the Sender Policy Framework (SPF). It has submitted the merger - called Sender ID - to the internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for approval. [29 Jun 2004]
Alliance plans to stem tide of spam
News Yahoo has backed a system known as DomainKeys for verifying the identity of an email sender with digital signatures, or two-key encryption. AOL has been testing a DNS-based system, formerly known as Sender Permitted From and recently renamed Sender... [23 Jun 2004]
Father of the internet says email ID will cure spam
News For example, Microsoft recently brokered a deal to consolidate Sender Policy Framework and Microsoft's Caller ID for Email - two antispam authentication schemes that look at DNS (Domain Name System) records to determine senders. [18 Jun 2004]
Anti-spam email "caller ID" gets Microsoft backing
News An ongoing effort to consolidate anti-spam authentication schemes took a big step forward with the merging of Sender Policy Framework and Microsoft's Caller ID for Email. SPF, which formerly stood for "Sender Permitted From," and Caller ID attack a... [26 May 2004]
Microsoft extends product support pledge
News Lees also promised future enhancements in spam blocking through Email Caller ID, a system Microsoft is working on to verify the sender of a message, thus enabling people to block "spoofed" junk messages. [26 May 2004]
Gates chats up CEOs
News Email will also get more manageable, Gates promised, as Microsoft and others work on spam blockers such as "trusted sender" systems that attempt to verify the sender of a message. Getting agreement amongst all the mail people on what we call 'mail... [21 May 2004]
Microsoft does anti-spam deal for MSN and Hotmail
News Under the agreement Microsoft will use Ironport's 'bonded sender' email certification programme, according to Ironport representatives. Outside of its bonded sender programme, Ironport sells email server appliances designed to secure mail delivery... [05 May 2004]
Spam busters: 'You're either with us or against us'
News Speaking yesterday at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Bill Gates outlined his vision of "Caller ID for email" - a method of verifying the sender's address. Similarly AOL is making a lot of noise about its SPF (sender permitted from) system. [25 Feb 2004]
Global anti-spam "neighbourhood watch" coalition formed
News DMP is similar to Caller ID but for email, and would help ISPs identify that a sender is legitimate. A group of international telecom providers, internet service providers and software companies plan to form a "neighbourhood watch" to oust junk... [14 Jan 2004]
Anti-spam standards pushed by internet body
News These include Sender Permitted From (SPF), the Designated Mailers Protocol (DMP) and Reverse Mail Exchange (RMX). Spammers typically cover their tracks by hacking into unprotected email servers, or open relays; by hijacking other email servers; and... [27 Oct 2003]
Yahoo! getting clever about spam
News The internet giant's introduction last month of challenge-response technology to its web-based mail service is not the first time the company has used the technique, which sets the sender a task that computers can't easily perform, as a way to... [11 Jun 2003]
UPS and HP launch secure online courier service
News It promises to scan and replicate paper-based documents, using HP Digital Sender software, and guarantees online delivery via UPS' Online Courier tracking technology. Martha Bennett, VP of European Research at Giga Information, told Silicon.com... [04 Jun 1999]
