Blue Security’s plan to fight spam with spam has gotten me thinking. Blue Security is a startup security firm that’s taking the fight against spam to the spammers by enlisting end-users to create a Do ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tero Vesalainen // Shutterstock Caller ID used to be a very simple thing in the "landline phones and copper wires" days. If ...

Question of the day: Why do spammers spam? Question two: What is the psychology of spamming? Spammers are more often than not wily opportunists posing as legitimate businesspeople. They distribute a ...

Spammers' prime motivation for engaging in spam campaigns is financial, according to a report by Vircom, a Montreal-based email security provider. The report offers a portrait of a spammer who said he ...

After a decline in the capabilities of spam-catching software, it's heartening to see that the good guys are getting better A year ago, the state of the spam-catching art was in dire straits. As I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getting to the bottom of your spam folder is not as scary as it sounds. (Photo: Getty) "Have you checked your spam folder?" You've ...

The fight against spam is being lost. At the current rate of increase, says Steve Linford of Spamhaus, 95 percent of all email will be spam by this time next year. That level of parasitic load is an ...