Sender authentication might work as a club to beat down phishing attacks on Web denizens, but it does little to fight spam. That’s the finding of a study released this week by CipherTrust, a messaging security firm in Atlanta. On the basis of analyzing some two million messages received between May and August by more than 1,000 CipherTrust customers worldwide, the study focused on the deployment and effectiveness of a technology known as the Sender Policy Framework (SPF).
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Survey Finds Spammers Embracing Sender Authentication
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. September 2, 2004 08:19 AMSender authentication might work as a club to beat down phishing attacks on Web denizens, but it does little to fight spam. That’s the finding of a study released this week by CipherTrust, a messaging security firm in Atlanta. On the basis of analyzing some two million messages received between May and August by more than 1,000 CipherTrust customers worldwide, the study focused on the deployment and effectiveness of a technology known as the Sender Policy Framework (SPF).