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Yahoo! Promises Fewer Fake emails
Techtree News Staff, Oct 05, 2007 1213 hrs ISTYahoo!, eBay, and PayPal have joined forces in an attempt to better protect consumers from fraudulent emails and phishing attacks, and help fight against email-based crimes.
Starting today, eBay and PayPal customers across-the-globe who use Yahoo! Mail can expect fewer fake emails that claim to be sent by eBay and PayPal.
Yahoo!, eBay, and PayPal have joined forces in an attempt to better protect consumers from fraudulent emails and phishing attacks, and help fight against email-based crimes.
The effort will result in the blocking of unauthenticated email, reducing their volume in the consumer's inbox, and lowering the risk of falling prey to phishing attacks.
Blocking of malicious messages will be done using the DomainKeys email authentication technology.
DomainKeys is developed by Yahoo! to address the problem of email forgery, and uses cryptography to verify the domain of the sender, making it easier to detect phishing attacks.
The technology verifies the authenticity of email messages, allowing Internet service providers to determine if messages are real, and should be delivered to a customer's inbox.
Yahoo!, eBay, and PayPal are in the process of transitioning their systems from DomainKeys to the proposed standard DomainKeys Identified Mail, which is expected reach completion in the coming months.
The technology will also be rolled-out (globally) over the next several weeks to all users of Yahoo! Mail.
Yahoo!, eBay, and PayPal have joined forces in an attempt to better protect consumers from fraudulent emails and phishing attacks, and help fight against email-based crimes.
The effort will result in the blocking of unauthenticated email, reducing their volume in the consumer's inbox, and lowering the risk of falling prey to phishing attacks.
Blocking of malicious messages will be done using the DomainKeys email authentication technology.
DomainKeys is developed by Yahoo! to address the problem of email forgery, and uses cryptography to verify the domain of the sender, making it easier to detect phishing attacks.
The technology verifies the authenticity of email messages, allowing Internet service providers to determine if messages are real, and should be delivered to a customer's inbox.
Yahoo!, eBay, and PayPal are in the process of transitioning their systems from DomainKeys to the proposed standard DomainKeys Identified Mail, which is expected reach completion in the coming months.
The technology will also be rolled-out (globally) over the next several weeks to all users of Yahoo! Mail.
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