VeriSign service takes on spam

[J.A. Terranson]

Oh, the irony!  A spammer selling anti-spam services!

//Alif


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:56:28 -0400
> From: R. A. Hettinga <rah at shipwright.com>
> To: cryptography at metzdowd.com, cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
> Subject: VeriSign service takes on spam
>
>
> ...A whitelist for my friends...
>
> Cheers,
> RAH
> -------
>
> <http://news.com.com/2102-7355_3-5250010.html?tag=st.util.print>
>
> CNET News
>
>  VeriSign service takes on spam
>
>  By  Dinesh C. Sharma
>  Special to CNET News.com
>  http://news.com.com/2100-7355-5250010.html
>
>  Story last modified June 28, 2004, 8:11 AM PDT
>
>
> VeriSign on Monday announced a new e-mail security service designed to stop
> viruses and spam.
>
>  The service uses custom blacklists, fingerprinting and heuristic tools,
> which calculate the probability that a particular e-mail message is spam by
> examining a pattern of characteristics in the message. VeriSign's heuristic
> tools use more than 10,000 rules to determine whether a message is spam,
> the company said.
>
>  For blocking malicious mail, the service deploys three antivirus engines.
> For policy enforcement, customers can use domain-level filtering to scan
> inbound and outbound e-mail. And a disaster recovery feature allows for
> automatic switchover to VeriSign's network to provide SMTP connections that
> queue e-mail, if a company's e-mail server is not available.
>
>
> The company has begun free trials of the service, which will be available
> on July 12. Pricing details were not announced.
>
>  VeriSign said it plans to add more functions, such as verification of
> sender identity and domain authentication. Domain names of all incoming
> mail will be checked against the company's list of verified domains. This
> list will be made available free to antispam software and service providers.
>
>  Although e-mail has become a critical tool for business communication, it
> is often saddled with problems caused by spam, viruses and worms.
>
>  Last week, malicious software infected some Web sites, redirecting
> visitors to a Russian server that downloaded software onto surfers'
> computers. Some have speculated that the purpose of this malicious plan was
> spam distribution. Recently, IBM introduced a security management service
> to help businesses stop viruses and spam before they enter their networks.
>
> "The introduction of this service will help enterprises restore the
> productivity gains from e-mail communication that are now under threat from
> spam and viruses," Judy Lin, executive vice president at VeriSign, said in
> a statement. "With a service-oriented approach, enterprises can easily
> obtain comprehensive e-mail protection in a matter of hours, without
> deploying any software or hardware. This service will enable customers to
> rely on VeriSign's highly available and scalable infrastructure for
> mission-critical functions."
>
>
>

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J.A. Terranson
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