eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Just when Im done dismissing the potential for e-mail ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. A group of leading technology companies that includes ...

In the wake of the Epsilon breach, organizations have taken the lead to notify consumers, telling them their e-mail addresses have been exposed and linked to information that could subject them to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I highly recommend Apple’s two-factor authentication (2FA) for your Apple ID and associated iCloud services as a way to reduce the threat of a remote hijack of your account. (Although note that you ...