A major spammer who was accused of sending up to 25 million e-mails per day has settled a lawsuit with Microsoft and the state of Texas.
Microsoft is expected to launch updated and renamed Antigen e-mail security products, nearly a year after completing the takeover of their maker, Sybari.
Bill Gates' prediction of January 2004 that spam would be "a thing of the past" within two years has virtually no chance of coming true, according to security company Sophos this week.
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.
Spammers have discovered ways of working round protocols that were originally designed to kill spam by allowing e-mail gateways to authenticate the origin of any e-mail. This abuse effectively renders the technologies useless, according to security experts.
Peter Cullen, the company's chief privacy strategist, explains how Sender ID can take a bite out of spam and phishing.
Messagelabs CTO Mark Sunner claims that ISPs allowing unfiltered traffic to flow to customers is like a water authority pumping out raw sewage. Additional reading: Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author
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