Things are set to get a little harder for the spammers and phishers out there. The question remains though. For how long?
From Network World:
The new weapon is called DKIM, an emerging e-mail authentication standard developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. DKIM, which stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail, allows an organization to cryptographically sign outgoing e-mail to verify that it sent the message.
DKIM addresses one of the Internet’s biggest threats: e-mail fraud. As much as 80% of e-mail from leading brands, banks and ISPs is spoofed, according to a report released in late January by the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance (AOTA). AOTA analyzed more than 100 million e-mails from Fortune 500 brands sent over a five-month period.
[tags]DKIM, Spam, Phishing, Anti Phishing[/tags]