[Editor’s Note: Denise Pappalardo is off today. In place of her newsletter we present this news story from the Service Provider Networks section of Network World Fusion. Enjoy.] John Knapp, executive ...

The first line of defense against spam is a set of remote blocking lists that are maintained by various spam-fighting organizations. Spam that is not blocked based on its source then hits our second ...

If Gmail’s spam and newsletter filters are letting too much slip through, or if you use a private email service with a bad spam filter, then try this solution: quarantine all email until the sender ...

A new anti-spam service launched with much fanfare this week is facing some technical hurdles out of the gate and frustration from the community it relies on to fight junk mail. The software, launched ...

Verizon, one of the four major cellular carriers in the United States, today announced the launch of a new free version of its Call Filter service that will identify, filter, and block incoming spam ...

This week has not been good for Outlook users as the renowned service has been struggling with high spam levels. Reports have been coming from all regions, suggesting a major issue with the company's ...

A little over a year ago I was faced with a spam filtering problem, but it’s not what you might expect. I had been using the paid Postini service for filtering spam sent through my domain, when Google ...

Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...

— -- You know what it's like to feel harassed. There's someone who just won't leave you alone. It seems like they're always there with a snide comment or mean statement. It can happen online too, ...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has rejected a Republican National Committee (RNC) complaint claiming that Google violated US law by using Gmail’s spam filter on Republican campaign emails.

The Republican National Committee is suing Google over Gmail’s spam filtering, claiming the company is “unlawfully discriminating against” the RNC by “throttling its email messages because of the ...