Mailshell, a San Francisco software company, is working with the nonprofit site TechSoup.org on a campaign to help charities fight unwanted e-mail messages. The effort will culminate in Mailshell’s ...

Appliances are a much better choice than software for spam protection because they address the broad range of security threats. Appliances are a much better choice than software for spam protection ...

FOREST HILL, Md., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced the release of Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0, the first major code release from the Apache ...

Rohnert Park, Calif. – April 29, 2010 – Red Condor, an award-winning provider of fully managed email security solutions, today released version 7.1 of its anti-spam software. The latest software ...

We suspect that you had more than enough mathematics in the form of Bayes Theorem last week so this week we’ll explain how it’s used in what is called Bayesian filtering to remove spam (note that the ...

Jeff Schwartz recently received an inquiry from a senior executive at a major wireless telephone carrier, asking if he could provide some product information about the software his company produces.

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 ...

While regulators are doing everything they can to stop robocalls in their tracks , it's an uphill battle, and some calls will inevitably slip through and make it to your phone. Fortunately, both Apple ...

The spam problem goes far beyond annoying solicitations for questionable products. These days, it's a frequent vector for identity theft, ransomware and more. Photo by scanrail/stock.adobe.com The ...

What do Viagra, stock tips, personal ads and activities with farm animals have in common? They are all the subject lines of unwanted, unsolicited e-mail messages, not-so-affectionately known as spam.

Microsoft is taking its antispam fight to the Asia-Pacific. As part of its current global campaign against unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, the software giant says it will use better filtering, ...

Typically, after identifying a message as spam, the filtering software either blocks it outright or places it in a quarantine folder, allowing the recipient to review it later. Although the latter ...