Despite promises from the government to reduce spam and prosecute illegal spammers, junk coming into our inboxes online is at an all-time high. It’s no wonder why we recently received an email from ...

Just like almost everyone else, I regularly go through my spam quarantines to make sure that there are no valid messages that inadvertently get trapped in them. Typically, spam is easily identifiable ...

COMMENTARY--Congress has finally taken an important step forward in the battle against unwanted and offensive e-mail by passing the Can-Spam Act of 2003. As co-authors of this legislation and as two ...

My recent article on how some spammers can bypass spam filtering technologies generated a significant response. Here are some highlights of the comments I received: * “I have observed exactly what you ...

What’s the News: Every day spammers are thinking up new ways to offer you “vIaGrA,” whether you have any interest or not, and spam filters have a tough time keeping up. Researchers studying what they ...

WASHINGTON--I spent last week at the Federal Trade Commission's three-day spam summit where hundreds of people, fed up with the skyrocketing amount of unsolicited bulk e-mail, gathered to figure out ...

Twitter has filed a lawsuit against “five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers” in a federal court in San Francisco, opening a new front in its battle against spam, it said Thursday.