e-mail authentication

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Attacking phishing at the source

Good news on the phishing front. Google reports that they are now authenticating all e-mail that purports to come from eBay and PayPal. Using e-mail authentication standards including DomainKeys and Domain Keys identified Mail, and working with PayPal and eBay, Google's Gmail now verifies every e-mail...

Tags: Bank, E-mail Authentication, PayPal, eBay Inc., E-mail, Phishing, Financial Services, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-09

More evidence of why Microsoft, AOL, Google, and Yahoo must work together on spam

Theoretically, with all the e-mail that flows through its systems, Yahoo is in a really good position to spot and tag spam as spam. But if the screen shot below taken today is any evidence of how Yahoo is faring in the war, then it's time for another approach....

Tags: Google Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., E-mail Authentication, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Microsoft outlines help for spam problem

E-mail authentication is a "first step"At the Email Authentication Implementation Summit in New York City, Microsoft's director of technology care and safety, Craig Spiezle, explains how a combination of consumer education, industry collaboration and technology can work to combat spammers and phishers.

Tags: E-mail, Phishing, Spam, e-mail authentication, Microsoft Corp.

Videos 2005-09-14

IETF puts SenderID on the fast track

Though the motivation for developing and adopting it has been to fight spam and phishing, SenderID probably shouldn't be thought of as an anti-spam standard.  Rather, it's an e-mail authentication standard that's will enable the fight against spam.  If you're not up to speed on how e-mail authentication works, News.com's...

Tags: e-mail, e-mail authentication, SenderID

Blog posts 2004-08-23

Additional Resources

CryptoExpert Lite 7.9.14 (Windows)

CryptoExpert creates encrypted virtual disks and these disks are visible as usual disks with drive letters (for example, G:, H:, Z:, i.e. with any drive letter that is not used by other system devices). The data stored on a CryptoExpert disk is stored in the container file. A container is...

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, InterCrypto, CryptoExpert

Software downloads 2009-11-14

Long-term Mozy for Mac review

Sad to read thisI have not found a "cloud" solution to backup either.I tried Backblaze, but the 1 month for the initial backup was not for me. Then, when I UNinstalled it, I was shocked to find a bit of it running on my iMac over 3 months later.The problem...

Tags: Backups, Desktops, backup, Mozy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, online backup

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

YouTube To MP3 Converter 1.0 (Windows)

YouTube Video Converter is the free software which can download and convert the YouTube videos to many other formats like MP3,AVI, WAV, WMV, MPEG, FLV, MKV, RM, 3GP, 3GPP2, MOV, DVD,ipod and etc.Some video downloads require login to YouTube.It supports downloads after logging in to YouTube as well.It supports downloading...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Microsoft Windows, Video, MP3, Sofonica, YouTube Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-15

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication

Ok, ill buy that..Yes Two-factor authentication doesnt help avoid the already infected. Now what the bank SHOULD have one other than the user having a fully patched system and AV if hes on Windows is when the website detected that there was activity from another IP address - represented another...

Tags: Financial services, Security administration, bank, two-factor authentication, banker malware

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication

Once pitched as an additional layer of security for E-banking transactions, two-factor authentication is slowly becoming an easy to bypass authentication process, to which cybercriminals have successfully adapted throughout the last couple of years. Modern banker malware, also known as crimeware, is now fully capable of bypassing...

Tags: Bank, Two-factor Authentication, Antivirus, Malware, SMS, Cybercriminal, Banker Malware, Zeus, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Security Administration, Financial Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Citizens Financial sued for insufficient E-Banking security

If a fraudulent transaction ever takes place on one of your bank accounts due to their compromise, who's to blame - the bank, for not providing you as a customer with state-of-the-art security mechanisms that could have prevented it, or you, as a customer whose insecure online behavior led to...

Tags: Bank, Citizens LLC, Electronic Banking, Financial, Two-factor Authentication, Online Banking, Banking, Security Administration, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-10

When Compromised Readers Meet RFID: Extended Version

RFID-based access control solutions for mobile environments, e.g. ticketing systems for sport events, commonly rely on readers that are not continuously connected to the back-end system. The readers must so be able to perform their tasks even in offline mode, what commonly requires the management by the readers of sensitive...

Tags: Paper, Access Control, RFID, Security Administration, Security, Wireless And Mobility, Biometrics

White papers 2009-08-21

Good riddance: Digital music sales to surpass CDs in 2010?

Sorry kid. There are plenty of us who buy CDs. You might want to read this:http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22862They are folks who don't give a rat's a$$ about being on the bleeding edge of technology.They have CD players in their cars, and most likely in their homes, and the purchase of an MP3...

Tags: Sales strategy, Digital media, digital music, CD, music, sales, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

When Compromised Readers Meet RFID

RFID-based access control solutions for mobile environments, e.g. ticketing systems for sport events, commonly rely on readers that are not continuously connected to the back-end system. The readers must so be able to perform their tasks even in offline mode, what commonly requires the management by the readers of sensitive...

Tags: Access Control, RFID, Security Administration, Security, Wireless And Mobility, Biometrics

White papers 2009-08-07

The state of Edubuntu...Your thoughts

I haven't had much opportunity recently to play with LTSP within any of the major distributions. Ubuntu is my desktop OS of choice everywhere except on my Mac, but the Linux Terminal Server Project, though powerful when I last used it in an Edubuntu test server early last year,...

Tags: Edubuntu, Thin Clients, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-05

SmartCVS Professional 7.0.9 (Mac)

SmartCVS Professional is a very powerful and still easy to use CVS client which contains all required tools (e.g. SSH-client, file compare). It runs on all major platforms (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/98/ME, Linux, Solaris, MacOSX). Major features include: supported authentication methods: pserver, sserver, ext (SSH1+SSH2) single-click-commit (automatically adds/removes unversioned/missing...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, CVS Corp., Web Browser, Authentication, SyntEvo, SmartCVS Professional, Web Browsers, Sun Solaris, Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-29

Zoom Search Engine 6.0.1017 (Windows)

Zoom is a free package for web developers to add a powerful custom search engine to their website, or CD/DVD, in a matter of minutes. No complicated server-side setup procedures, just index and upload from the convenience of your own Windows computer. Features include: "Google-like" context descriptions and recommended links,...

Tags: Microsoft ASP, Search Engine, PHP, Microsoft ASP.NET, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows, WrenSoft, Scripting Languages, .Net, Search, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-16

News to know: AMD; Windows 7; Chrome OS; 'Slow IT'

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: AMD rounds out six-core Opteron lineup Joe McKendrick: In praise of 'slow IT' Mary Jo...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PecoBOO, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Secure Remote Access Administrator Training v10

View Available Dates and LocationsThis three-day course provides instruction on the administration and management of the SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SSL VPN appliance to enable secure, anywhere access to applications and resources for employees, business partners, and other users. You will learn how to use...

Tags: Remote Access, Administrator, SonicWall, Training, VPNs, Ssl/Tls, Network Security, Security, Terminal Services, Telecommunications, Networking

Training 2009-07-01