McAfee.com Corp. Tuesday gave users another weapon to add to their arsenals in the never-ending battle against spam when it announced the release of its new SpamKiller software. The software will help ...

I'm not going to name names, but people who still use the guilty-until-proven innocent, spam filtering system called challenge-response should just get off email altogether. You know, there is nothing ...

Community-based spam filtering leverages the most finely tuned spam detection device in the world—the human brain—and relies on the fact that spam, by definition, is sent to thousands of victims. When ...

Turning the number of false positives and false negatives into easy-to-digest statistics is different, because the anti-spam community has not come to any agreement on which numbers to use across ...

Spam sucks. We all know that. There is no better way of putting it -- especially if your company has ever been hit with 10,000 pieces of spam in a single day. It's not too far-fetched a scenario: ...

Good news for spammers, the smart filtering software used to catch spam can be beaten. With a little ingenuity it is possible to create messages that get past anti-spam filters every single time. The ...

Years ago, email spam was a huge problem. There was an escalating war between spammers and spam filters. Eventually, spam filter technology won. Although email spam is still a thing, the vast majority ...

Spam emails pose a serious risk to the security of our personal data, and this risk is widely underestimated. According to research GMX conducted last year, fewer than half of Brits (46%) even ...

Sick of spam? Some organizations say that spam represents between 45% and 75% of all inbound mail. In my case, spam accounts for half of the e-mail messages I receive. And for the last two years, it’s ...

This week has not been good for Outlook users as the renowned service has been struggling with high spam levels. Reports have been coming from all regions, suggesting a major issue with the company's ...