Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Gmail fights phishing with Ebay and PayPal















People that know me know that I LOVE Google. I have moved my life to Google Apps including my new domain - markfrolick.com The core of Google Apps for many is Gmail. Google never ceases to amaze me when it comes to technology innovation. Their latest foray into fraud avoidance is called DomainKeys Identified Mail - DKIM. It is rather ingenious. What this does is verify that when you receive an email from Ebay or PayPal, it is from their actual domain and not a spoofed domain. If the email is not from an authentic domain, it never reaches you. It doesn't even make it as far as your spam filter.

Yet another reason that Gmail is so powerful!

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