AOL filter prevents anonymous email
News Email spoofing is one of the toughest problems that ISPs and anti-spam companies face, largely because Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) -- the method for sending email -- offers no widespread means to detect and verify a sender's identity.
[January 22, 2004, 11:20]
Debian rejects Sender ID
News Domain spoofing has also caused problems for legitimate senders who have found their domain blacklisted by anti-spam organisations due to their address being faked on spam emails. Sender ID has been developed to combat domain spoofing -- faking the...
[September 6, 2004, 13:00]
Yahoo and Sendmail ally against spam
News In working with Sendmail, and other industry leaders, we are able to develop a powerful authentication solution to solve the spoofing problem and lay the foundation for future anti-spam advances," Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president of...
[February 25, 2004, 7:45]
Anti-spammers seek proof of senders' identity
News The problem of email address spoofing is a fundamental obstacle to curbing spam, say ISPs and anti-spam companies. The Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) early this month formed a subcommittee to hammer out...
[October 27, 2003, 8:15]
Anti-spam firms test 'caller-ID' for email
News The future looks bleak for spammers as service providers start testing technologies to overcome email address 'spoofing', according to email and security experts speaking at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
[February 26, 2004, 9:00]
L0pht's Anti-Sniff can only be used for good
News Particularly notorious "security" tools that have doubled as useful cracking applications include the remote access tool Back Orifice 2000 from another group of "security consultants", Cult of the Dead Cow, and a password spoofing application...
[August 31, 1999, 16:47]
Experts clash over merits of anti-spam authentication
News Supporters say SPF can clamp down on the practice of 'spoofing', where spammers alter the appearance of messages so that they no longer appear to come from the domain that sent them, but another entirely.
[October 10, 2005, 15:05]
Microsoft proposes joint anti-spam fight
News The proposals would help solve the domain-spoofing problem, which accounts for 50 percent of spam, according to Webb. Spoofing" is a tactic used by spammers to make return addresses appear legitimate to the recipient's spam filters.
[May 24, 2004, 11:40]
Australia tables anti-spam law
News Since many spam messages contain a fake "from" address, through a process called spoofing, businesses that have had their address stolen have found themselves on the receiving end of a barrage of rejected email and complaints, using large amounts...
[September 18, 2003, 10:40]
Researchers attack MMS phones via text message
News The SMS exploits the researchers showed allow an attacker to "bypass the carrier spoofing protections" including anti-malware filtering, Lackey said. It does not allow for the spoofing issues, which carriers still need to address, they said.
[July 31, 2009, 16:21]
Copyright foes trade verbal blows
News Howard Berman, would allow intellectual property owners to use technical measures, including spoofing and hacking into sharing systems, to prevent copyright infringement. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, would require government-mandated anti-copying...
[August 2, 2002, 11:22]
International coalition hits back at spam
News On the technical front, each company in the last year has publicly backed a different system for authenticating email and quashing mail forgeries, or domain spoofing. That way, ISPs and email providers could help prevent email fraud, one of the...
[June 23, 2004, 8:50]
Let studios hack P2P networks, says US politician
News These tactics include: interdiction, in which a copyright owner floods a file swapper with false requests so that downloads can't get through; redirection, in which a file swapper might be pointed to a site that doesn't actually have the files...
[June 26, 2002, 12:00]
Copyright bill slurs are lies, say US senators
News Randy Saaf, president of an anti-piracy firm called MediaDefender, told the panel that he offered customers two ways to target peer-to-peer piracy: Clogging pirates' outgoing connections, and spoofing networks by distributing files with misleading...
[September 30, 2002, 9:04]
P2P foes defend hacking bill
News Randy Saaf, president of an anti-piracy firm called MediaDefender, told the panel that he offered customers two ways to target peer-to-peer piracy: Clogging pirates' outgoing connections, and spoofing networks by distributing files with misleading...
[September 27, 2002, 10:59]
Email users get a reputation
News Both technologies are designed to improve spam filters and prevent the spoofing of email addresses. In addition to the TrustedSource Web site, CipherTrust on Monday also released two new anti-spam products, which both use reputation services to...
[August 30, 2005, 9:30]
Hack attacks on home PCs increase
News Other threats to home PCs include email spoofing, where an email that apparently originates from a reputable source tricks the user into releasing sensitive information. According to CERT, home users are particularly vulnerable to compromises of...
[August 29, 2001, 17:22]
SQL Slammer worm wreaks havoc on Internet
News Under normal circumstances this is not a problem, according to Microsoft, but by spoofing the source address of such a packet, it would be possible to cause two SQL Server 2000 systems to start an endless cycle of packet exchanges.
[January 26, 2003, 9:58]
Anti-spam standard catches on - with spammers
News Phishing attacks are all about spoofing someone's domain name. With few junk email filters supporting a protocol for verifying the source address of digital messages, spammers have adopted it themselves as a way to appear more legitimate, according...
[September 9, 2004, 9:05]
Microsoft launches anti-spam court action in UK
News Another spam practice Microsoft targeted in the suits is the "spoofing" of the sender's email address. Intensifying its campaign against spammers, Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it had taken legal action in the company's home state of...
[June 18, 2003, 8:54]
