Last Friday, I started getting bounced messages from compuserve and other hosts for emails I had never sent. Some investigation showed that a spammer (who I will refer to as Tiny, his first email was ...

Email is the single most effective marketing tool for many businesses -- and being blocked as an email spammer can be their biggest headache. It's getting more difficult to get into inboxes, as the ...

Turns out the majority of the spam hitting your inbox is originating in the U.S. Cybersecurity company VIPRE’s Email Threat Trends Report for Q1 2025 found that 57 percent of all spam emails sent in ...

Joe Stewart was poring over the complex computer code of a widespread new virus named “SoBig,” wondering what it was really designed to do. Then it hit him. This was not your typical attention-getting ...

Spammers face a battle to deliver their messages. First they need a revenue model that reaps rewards. Next they need a never-ending supply of valid e-mail addresses with as much qualifying data as ...

A decision by Judge James Zagel of the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois affirms an Internet service provider’s (ISP) right to block e-mail spam coming in to its customers. e360 Insight, widely ...

Have you helped a spammer today? According to operators of spam-filtering lists, an alarming number of people are unwittingly helping junk mailers shuttle spam, or unsolicited bulk e-mail. Those ...

Junk e-mail, known commonly as spam, continues to flood inboxes throughout the country. Terence Smith examines the continued effort to block the deluge of unwanted e-mail. You open your computer inbox ...