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- Oracle announces Exadata 2
- Cute. No SPF in this box? Hmmm....Well since Larry did not mention that the box does not have UPS tied into itself, the SPF Single Point of Failure for the unit is simply the PLUG. What a maroon. Pull the plug and it's down across the board.What I love about...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SPF
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Phishing education eludes Net users; Can reverse DNS zap phishers and spam?
- Phishing education eludes Net users; Can reverse DNS zap phishers and spam?SenderID and SPF works a lot better since not everyone controls their ownSenderID and SPF works a lot better since not everyone controls their own reverse DNS. Setting up a regular forward DNS is trivial; setting up reverse...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, E-mail, DomainKeys, rDNS, reverse-DNS, phishing, Phishing Education, SPF
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- More on ending SPAM
- Number five in my top five VC proposals Id like to write blog from a few weeks ago was a proposal on ending SPAM. Frequent contributor CobraA1 challenged me on this: Youll have to explain this in detail - Im not sure I see...
- Tags: General, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Microsoft sets Sender ID free
- Microsoft sets Sender ID freeIt's not a "product" in the normal sense of the word . . .It's not a product in a normal sense of the word. To be precise, SenderID and SPF is a short piece of text on a DNS server telling the receiver which machines are...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail, SenderID, SPF, spam, Sender ID, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-23
- ZoneAlarm glitches hit Eudora, McAfee users
- ZoneAlarm glitches hit Eudora, McAfee usersZone AlarmInteresting. I removed Zone Alarm as it was interfering with Incredimail as well. MY opinion, for what's it worth, is that the last Sygate version (5.5) before being absorbed by Symantec, is about the best and never caused any problemsZoneAlarm does get paranoid...
- Tags: Firewalls, Viruses and worms, Comodo Firewall, ZoneAlarm, firewall, McAfee Inc., SPF, Eudora
- Discussion threads 2006-06-21
- White knight rescues Kerio's free firewall
- White knight rescues Kerio's free firewallAs far as I know ...From what I've heard, the overall quality of this firewall dropped off the map after v2 was released. Is this firewall still relavent, even with Sygate no longer in the union? (To those that don't know, Sygate was slurped by...
- Tags: Firewalls, Network security, SECURITY, firewall, Kerio, Sygate, SPF
- Discussion threads 2005-12-01
- Sobering up
- Sobering upWell, to be fairIt seems to have totally missed this particular Linux user. Haven't seen a one, not even on the Y! and GMail spamtraps. Even the postmaster account on my domain (which gets well over 1500 spam/month even past the DNSBL) hasn't seen any.Domain KeysA step...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, Domain Keys, SPF
- Discussion threads 2005-11-30
- Symantec scraps Sygate consumer firewall
- Symantec scraps Sygate consumer firewallThis is a sad daySygate Personal Firewall was the best in terms of speed and controllability. Yes, the configurations are intimidating for novice, but once the user masters the options, he'll find it hard to replace SPF with any other firewalls out there.All should go and...
- Tags: SECURITY, Symantec Corp., Sygate, SPF
- Discussion threads 2005-11-28
- Spam, phishing and other trash transmissions
- One Nick FitzGerald, a long time PC security researcher, has been making the news lately with a paper dedicated to the proposition that user authentication isn't all that effective as a means of stopping spam, phishing, and other forms of junk TCP/IP transmissions. Here's the summary provided by Virus Bulletin:...
- Tags: router
- Blog posts 2005-10-11
- Web site gives e-mail senders a reputation
- Web site gives e-mail senders a reputationReputation Rating?A reputation rating???Sounds alot like a credit rating. How many of us have struggled with a credit rating because of identity theft? Now we have to contend with not being able to send email because someone erroneously gave us a bad...
- Tags: Web, raised concern, e-mail, SPF, domain, Web site
- Discussion threads 2005-08-29
- Sender ID's fading message
- Sender ID's fading messageWorthless?"About 84 percent of those authenticated messages were spam". We've calculated that closer to 90% of the SenderID, SPF authenticated messages we receive is Spam - but let's say it is 84%. So authentication alone is worthless."If we can get to a place where a...
- Tags: E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Sender ID, SPF, SenderID
- Discussion threads 2005-08-09
- Antispam spec sets off on path to standard
- Antispam spec sets off on path to standardAmazing! Thank you Microdoft!!!Amazing that when Microsoft simply moved ahead how everyone else all of a sudden stops the bickering and submits their plans for consideration/approval.Spam cannot be stopped!This is a simple fact of nature!Only good filters can help!If it were so,...
- Tags: Spam, SPF, anti-spam, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-07-11
- Why Microsoft's spam ploy is no solution
- Why Microsoft's spam ploy is no solutionA suggestion for you.If you don't like it, don't use it. See how simple that is?Seems UneducatedFirst of all everything causes false positives, and Microsoft is being very clear that publishing your SPF/Sender-ID information in DNS will only help your situation. Much like...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Corp., spam, SPF, Internet Engineering Task Force, Sender ID
- Discussion threads 2005-06-29
- Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technology
- Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technologySpam filter wars?Could this be the start of a major war between companies for spam filtering?Similar to the browser wars of the 1990's.Mandating SPF, not Sender IDHotmail is mandating the use of [url=http://spf.pobox.com/]the Sender Policy Framework[/url] not SenderID.SenderID adds proprietary MS Purported Responsible Address PRA technology to...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, E-mail providers, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, SPF, Microsoft Corp., SenderID, spam filtering
- Discussion threads 2005-06-22
- Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spam
- Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spamSome points to clarify about Larry's articleHiI manage the antispam operations at Outblaze (we run mail for lycos, mail.com and a bunch of other sites - ~ 40 million users)Here are a few counterpoints to what you wrote ->...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Network technology, spam, Internet Service Provider, mailserver, SMTP, e-mail, server, SPF, IP
- Discussion threads 2005-04-17
- Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spam
- Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spamWhat are these top 50 domains?Are you talking ISPs? Microsoft? IBM? China?SPF is an unstable hack..Very hard to keep all the DNS servers consistant. Resolving domain names in the forward directions one thing. Reverse and all...
- Tags: E-mail, Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail servers, Cyberthreats, Servers, Port 25, server, SMTP, e-mail server, spam, spammer, administrator, Internet Service Provider, SPF
- Discussion threads 2005-04-12
- The end of e-mail as we know it
- The end of e-mail as we know itIdentification != SpamI get spam from companies I know with real addresses. Pretty much every company I've ever had cause to send my email address to sends me unsolicitied advertisements.From my perspective spam = mail I don't won't from identified or unidenfied sources.Filtering...
- Tags: Spam, Domain names, SIDF, SPF, e-mail, Sender ID, domain, TXT, server
- Discussion threads 2005-03-22
- Anti-spam standard still moving in slow motion
- Anti-spam standard still moving in slow motionRANDZ should be enoughAs long as M$ will not charge anyone a fee to use their technology, why not use it? Sun keeps the Java patents close in hand, while allowing everyone to use the tech.Negative attentionMicrosoft's attitude has always been, "call me...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Sun Microsystems Inc., SenderID, e-mail, Microsoft Corp., SPF, spam, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2005-03-14
- Amazon, others lobby FTC for help fighting spam
- Amazon, others lobby FTC for help fighting spamWaste of timeNothing the governments, or industry can do is going to stop the spam problem. Even most antispam products are having an increasingly harder time achieving the same results they were seeing just a few short months ago. For every...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, SenderID, SPF, Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., e-mail, FTC
- Discussion threads 2004-11-15
- Should Microsoft own antispam?
- Should Microsoft own antispam?A standard exists today and is used by millions of email usersAnd this standard is SPF. Simple, here today, popular and without MS patent FUD.Check it out today at spf.pobox.comIf you control your own DNS servers, implementing SPF will take an hour a little reading.No. Definately...
- Tags: Quality, E-mail, Spam, Domain names, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., SPF, standards, anti-spam, Internet
- Discussion threads 2004-11-09
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