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The problem SPF tries to solve is joe-jobbing. When spam e-mails, worms and viruses send malicious payloads, they do so using a forged envelope sender or forged return-path, which is where bounces go. When millions of spam e-mails go out, some of them go to undeliverable addresses, and those bounces end up in the mailboxes of innocent third parties because the reply-to addresses have been forged...

The plague of malware appears to be escalating worldwide. As a worm variant called Netsky.D bombards e-mail inboxes around the globe, an even newer version, Netsky.E, already is being analyzed, according to Joe Hartmann, director of North America antivirus research at Trend Micro...

Joe Wilcox, a Microsoft specialist at Jupiter Research, said he sees two intertwined trends in the Apache-IIS debate. "So much is about marketing and positioning," he told TechNewsWorld. Wilcox estimates at least 35 to 40 percent of Windows Server installations are still NT 4. "Microsoft is trying to get those customers on older versions onto something newer, hopefully Windows Server 2003," he says.

"One of the things that helped phishing along greatly was the Microsoft vulnerability," Joe Telafici, director of operations for the antivirus emergency response team for Network Associates in Santa Clara, California, told TechNewsWorld But Meyer expects the open wound in IE t...

This year, AOL has posted several classic Super Bowl ads on its Web site and has teamed with CBS in an interactive contest that lets people vote on whether they believe Apple's "1984" ad or Coca-Cola's Mean Joe Greene is the best ad in Super Bowl history Two decades after that...

CEO Joe Tucci credited "the strength of our broadened product portfolio, combined with outstanding execution and an improving global economy" for the "solid" conclusion to 2003 EMC also put a positive spin on its expectations for 2004, saying revenue for the full year could ri...

A hornets' nest of fury over a video game that urges its players to "kill the Haitians" has prompted a South Florida city to approve -- at least initially -- a sweeping ordinance to regulate games sold or rented to minors. The law, proposed by North Miami's Joe Celestin, a Haitian-American, imposes a $250 fine on anyone who sells or rents to minors without their parents' consent games in which players kill or cause harm "to a human form."

Although superworms have the potential to carry out massive mischief, not everyone believes that potential will be exploited by virus writers. "It's a buzzword that people like to throw out there," Joe Stewart, a senior security researcher at LURHQ, a managed-security provider headquartered in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, told TechNewsWorld. "Whether we'll see one, I'm not sure...

A year or two ago, Joe Barr wrote a series on the relationship between Microsoft and his home city of Austin, Texas. As Joe pointed out in "Why Austin TX is considering a Microsoft enterprise license," the relationship started out a little one-sided, with the city unable to influence licensing terms. Later, as he also reported, the city looked at Linux as an alternative and is now well on its way to piloting it as a generic desktop solution -- thus giving itself lots of bargaining clout for the next go-round with Microsoft...

It doesn't have anything to do with Caldera either. That's just another red herring being dragged in with the effect of confusing the issue. Whether or not Caldera added its GPL stamp to some protected code is immaterial with respect to whether or not anyone else did it. The timing and genesis of each such release by Caldera might be of substantial interest during the penalty phase, but it's not important now because of the principle that Jane's actions don't excuse Joe's...

Depending on a client's needs, a Web host also should be able to provide tax-compliance on a local, state, national and possibly international basis, Digital River CEO Joel Ronning told the E-Commerce Times. Businesses also need to consider how a host handles privacy and export-control issues, if pertinent...

This year, the list features 20 top toys, including Hokey Pokey Elmo and Limbo Elmo, Lord of the Rings action figures, GI Joe 40th anniversary figures and Micropets. Also on the list are old favorites like Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony and, of course, Barbie...

SuSE Linux spokesperson Joe Eckert told TechNewsWorld that although the deal with Gateway involves standard and enterprise Linux servers only, the now Novell-owned company will seek similar deals for desktop Linux, which both companies offer "We certainly see synergies between...

Although buying a computer from Joe in Montana via eBay may get you a good price, sometimes it is nice to have more assurance that a product is bonafide. That may mean going to a company rather than an individual The Association of Service and Computer Dealers International re...

By contrast, in Microsoft Excel, most of the major improvements apply only to "power users," according to MrExcel.com president Bill Jelen. "For the average Joe using Excel, there's really not anything new to speak of," he told the E-Commerce Times. However, Jelen noted, "[Mi...

Despite e-voting security issues in the United States that have pitted some researchers, publishers and ISPs against Diebold Election Systems, the Linux-based voting system used in the Ontario election is as secure as or more secure than financial industry transactions, CanVote president Joe Church told TechNewsWorld...

Maupin said that he often works with a group called Jabber, which is developing an open-source IM product. He thinks Jabber eventually will become the standard for IM. If this prediction were to become true, it surely would make Joe Hildebrand, who is chief architect at Jabber, a happy man. Jabber's open-source protocol for IM interoperability is also referred to as the XMPP standard -- or Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol...

But according to Joe Wilcox, senior analyst at Jupiter Research, "Microsoft has limited the XML capabilities in four of the six versions of Office." The XML is saved using a prorietary schema. "And Microsoft doesn't fully publish that information," Wilcox told TechNewsWorld. "That significantly limits portability."

That strong message has been met with strong language from some quarters. "I thought Joe McCarthy and Joe Stalin were dead, but obviously they're alive and well and running the RIAA," Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster, a peer-to-peer Internet service, told TechNewsWorld...

Lamo, who was released on US$250,000 bail following his surrender in Sacramento Tuesday, has been barred from computer use and now faces penalties including fines and prison time, according to the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. Joe Valiquette, an FBI agent and spokesperson in New York, told TechNewsWorld that, if found guilty, Lamo faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a $500,000 fine...