China joins anti-spam alliance
Talkback Nice idea but the Americans will never go along with anything that had the word 'international' in, at least under Bush anyway
[July 5, 2005, 13:54]
China joins anti-spam alliance
Talkback The spam nuisance can be tackled only by imposing deterrent punishment coupled with exemplary compensation. The problem of spam, however, cannot be eliminated completely unless active support of almost all the nations is considered.
[July 5, 2005, 9:39]
China joins anti-spam alliance
News Michael said the UK government intends to use its presidency of the EU to further push the anti-spam efforts. China has finally signed up to a global crackdown on spam, adding the most important name to an international accord and leading...
[July 5, 2005, 9:15]
Transatlantic anti-spam alliance mooted
News She also doubted suggestions that the identities of the most prolific bulk mailers are well-known within anti-spam circles, adding that "our biggest problem is tracing the origin of the spam" due to the complicated measures spammers have in place...
[October 11, 2004, 12:55]
AOL filter prevents anonymous email
News In addition, AOL last year forged an alliance with Yahoo, Microsoft and EarthLink to develop and eventually implement such anti-spam technologies. America Online is testing an anti-spam filter intended to accurately trace the origin of email...
[January 22, 2004, 11:20]
Survey: Nearly all phishing from forged addresses
News Several top Internet providers, including Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink, America Online, British Telecom and Comcast, formed an alliance last week to push for new technical guidelines to fight spam mails.
[June 29, 2004, 12:00]
Microsoft fires off spam lawsuits
News In October, AOL, Microsoft, EarthLink and Yahoo -- members of the Anti-Spam Alliance -- all filed lawsuits in the US courts. Microsoft has filed seven lawsuits against unnamed defendants who it believes sent spam that violated the US anti-spam law...
[December 2, 2004, 15:00]
US spammers get fines and jail time
News A Florida man known as the "timeshare spammer" was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday for clogging in-boxes with millions of unsolicited email messages, in one of the first criminal prosecutions under US federal anti-spam laws.
[November 18, 2005, 8:10]
Industry unites against IM spam
News America Online, Microsoft, Earthlink and Yahoo (which together form the Anti-Spam Alliance in the United States) announced> in October 2004 that they had each filed new lawsuits in the US Federal Court against senders of unwanted computer messages.
[February 22, 2005, 7:55]
Microsoft's email proposal returned to sender
News Between the company's participation in that group and the Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, Microsoft has done a good job of selling major Internet infrastructure companies on the benefits of its proposal.
[September 14, 2004, 8:15]
Passport failure shows the folly of Microsoft's ways
Leader Who knows, perhaps the next stop will be the anti-spam Sender Policy Framework, where again Microsoft has been at odds with the wider tech community. Whatever the cause, Microsoft's miscalculations have failed and left the way clear for the...
[January 4, 2005, 13:25]
Businesses lack spyware protection
News That's how they felt about spam in the beginning, too. While a majority of companies are increasingly concerned about the growth of spyware on their employees' desktops, few are using anti-spyware technology, according to survey results released on...
[October 28, 2004, 8:54]
AOL attacks the spimmers
News AOL, Microsoft, EarthLink and Yahoo -- members of the Anti-Spam Alliance --have all filed lawsuits against the US courts. AOL and our members continue to make spam-fighting a priority, and we continue to use the legal process on their behalf to...
[October 28, 2004, 17:49]
International coalition hits back at spam
News The effort is the latest from the Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, or ASTA, a group formed in April 2003 by the four major ISPs -- Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink and AOL. That way, ISPs and email providers could help prevent email fraud, one of the chief...
[June 23, 2004, 8:50]
Robot-busting ploy 'shuts out the blind'
News And CNET News.com publishes some of its public email addresses in a graphical, computer-unreadable form in order to throw off spam address harvesters. The tests are designed to prevent software robots from registering numerous accounts and...
[November 7, 2003, 14:15]
Microsoft clarifies Exchange migration path
News Other new features include anti-spam tools and better security. Check out the latest developments on .Net, Java, Liberty Alliance, Passport and other technologies at ZDNet UK's Web Services News Section, including analysis, case studies and...
[November 20, 2002, 9:36]
BT goes Yahoo with rejigged broadband
News This will include antivirus, anti-spam and firewall software and parental controls on Web access, as well as other services not yet launched by Yahoo. Ingram denied, though, that the new alliance with Yahoo shows that BT's efforts in the content...
[June 16, 2003, 11:55]
Yahoo hosting 'thousands' of phishing sites
News Yahoo is playing host to thousands of phishing sites and doesn't have sufficiently well-trained staff to address the problem of online fraud, according to a leading anti-spam and security organisation on Tuesday.
[September 6, 2005, 12:55]
BT and Yahoo team up to tackle AOL
News BT and Yahoo will struggle to compete with AOL on price and content, and are instead pushing the advantages of improved parental controls, spam filtering, anti-virus and content personalisation. At a demo of the service in London, a Yahoo spokesman...
[September 2, 2003, 15:45]
Microsoft to fund anti-phishing group
News The Microsoft analyst will help the alliance make sense of data related to Internet crime, including violations of the federal Can-Spam Act, as well as phishing, the software giant said. As incidents of spam, email attacks and phishing increase in...
[July 22, 2004, 10:50]
