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PayPal recently detailed an aggressive plan to help eradicate spam and phishing attacks. And it's no wonder, since PayPal is one of the most targeted companies when it comes to phishing attacks.
The company's plan to delete phishing attacks permanently from the world's inboxes is multi-pronged. It includes, as it should, layers of law enforcement, better authentication technologies, shutting down phishing sites, and increasing customer awareness.
In this column, we'll focus on two of the signing technologies the company plans to use to improve sent email authentication: Sender Policy Framework, SPF, and DomainKeys. In effect, these would allow ISPs to drop each email that isn't verified to be from PayPal, or any other common phishing target for that matter.
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