Thursday, June 02, 2005

Yahoo!, Cisco Combine Antispam Efforts

Matthew Fordahl writes in an AP newswire article on Yahoo! News:

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. and Internet portal Yahoo Inc. are combining their efforts to combat e-mail spam and forgery in a step that's expected to help expand adoption of the technology.

The move, announced Wednesday, combines two techniques that rely on cryptography to help determine whether the sender of an e-mail message is legitimate. Sending messages using a false address is a common tactic of spammers.

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