One of the biggest mistakes being made on the anti-spam front by vendors, service providers, lawmakers, and lawyers is the focus they are placing on technological and legal solutions that attempt to ...

Just as any health care worker can tell you there's no such thing as 100 percent "safe" sex, every Facebook user should know there's no such thing as "safe" clicking. And if abstinence is not an ...

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In contrast to the commercial products, SpamAssassin represents an older, first-generation anti-spam solution, and its age showed in my tests. It filtered only 62 percent of spam, whereas the other ...

Three consumer groups today angrily launched a petition drive to ask the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to stop deceptive and unsolicited commercial junk e-mail, or spam, from filling the ...

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 ...