It appears many Mail users are having authentication problems in which they are prompted for the username and password every time a message is sent (either manually ...

Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. will soon begin testing new e-mail security technology, including Microsoft Corp.’s recently released Caller ID technology, a company executive said. EarthLink ...

Is identity theft on the rise, or is it a problem that has been vastly overhyped? Recent incidents of lost or stolen laptops have focused public attention on the huge amount of personal information ...

IT executives say they aren’t deterred by a lack of standardization among developers of e-mail authentication software. E-mail authentication is not an either/or proposition. As ISPs, e-mail service ...

Some macOS 15.5 Mail users are dealing with authentication issues when using the app with Microsoft or Google accounts. It's not yet clear why. Issues with Apple Software are an occasional problem for ...

Spam and its evil offshoot, phishing, have become growing problems on the Internet. Not only has spam become a nuisance with its frequently offensive subject matter, but it is consuming increasing ...

This week’s powwow of e-mail heavyweights in Chicago returned the IT community’s attention to the issue of e-mail message authentication, but the messaging community has too little to show for a ...

Some observers criticize IT vendors for not agreeing on a single, standard way for dealing with evil e-mail. The key e-mail authentication protocols are Microsoft’s Sender ID Framework (SIDF), with ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS — Sender Policy Framework, a specification designed to authenticate e-mail senders and therefore cut down on spam, has one significant flaw — which a technologist presenting at the MIT ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- With a simple adjustment in your e-mail software, you can pretend to be anyone. You can send messages marked as coming from BillGates@microsoft.com. The trick, known as spoofing, is a ...

Chicago–Different classes of e-mail are “absolutely inevitable” if the system is to advance to the point where users can trust it, said Richard Gingras, CEO of Goodmail Systems, the company whose ...

New antispam technology standards are on the way that promise to hit spammers where it hurts the most--their wallets. At issue is the ability to authenticate the original source of e-mail messages, a ...