A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious letter from a lover, or the daily tally from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would you read first? Programmers at a small software company say ...

Despite cell carriers’ best efforts, spam messages are still flooding our phones on a daily basis. Apple might just be coming to the rescue. The iPhone maker is testing out a new developer feature ...

SpamAssassin, popular open source spam-filtering software, will have deadlier aim thanks to an add-on tool that is being offered free of charge to small businesses and individuals by MailChannels. The ...

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 ...

Founded in 1994, Nemx Software provides content security solutions for Microsoft Exchange servers. The small firm, consisting of only seven full-time staff members, provides anti-spam, anti-virus and ...

Bulk e-mailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick, experts said this week. The ...

Network protection provider Internet Security Systems said Wednesday that it is acquiring privately held security software maker Cobion for $32.8 million to increase its spam filtering capabilities.

AT&T WorldNet this week activated a risky spam-filtering technique that it shortly had to defuse after subscribers discovered they were losing legitimate e-mail. Late Wednesday night, the Web access ...

Gmail users faced widespread chaos Saturday as promotional emails flooded inboxes, legitimate messages triggered spam ...

This newsletter goes out to tens of thousands of subscribers every week. There’s no telling how many of those individuals actually receive the newsletter because spam filters could be blocking its ...

New Zealand developer Firetrust Ltd. has announced that its server-side spam filtering tool MailWasher Pro is now available for Mac and Linux. The software enables users to view new e-mails on the ...

MIT recently brought together the nation’s top spam fighters at its annual anti-spam conference. Network World caught up with some of the speakers and participants. Here are their stories. Spam ...