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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Spam, commercial and otherwise, is on the rise despite ...

Answer: An account manager for TMP Worldwide’s Directional Marketing Interactive proposed that we differentiate unsolicited commercial e-mail from spam. The manager said, "Spam is relentless and often ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has elected to retain its CAN-SPAM Rule in its present form without changes. The CAN-SPAM Rule implements the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography ...

Iconic brand SPAM to create Shakespearean-style advert. With the catchline ‘Hammier than Ham’, the Hormel Foods tinned pork and ham product aims to use slapstick humour in a Shakespearian style advert ...

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 ...

Dear Action Line: Isn't there some federal law prohibiting "spam?" I use email for my business and contacting customers, with their permission, but I still receive thousands of junk emails from other ...

On average, only 3 percent of unsolicited commercial email complied with the federal anti-spam law during 2004, according to a report released Monday by MX Logic. The report, which comes one year ...