Yahoo and eBay link up on phisher blocker
Published October 4th, 2007
Yahoo and eBay are joining forces to block phishing messages that specifically target PayPal users.
EBay and its PayPal subsidiary will use Yahoo’s DomainKeys technology to force email senders to prove who they are.
DomainKeys works by verifying the domain of each email sender and the integrity of the messages sent.
Yahoo claims that the system is designed to stop false positives, where genuine emails are blocked accidentally.
“Once the domain can be verified, it can be compared to the domain used by the sender in the ‘From’ field of the message to detect forgeries,” said a Yahoo statement.
“If it is a forgery, then it is spam or fraud and can be dropped without impact to the user.”
