London-based Spamhaus, which runs a spam-blocking service, added Yahoo! site off its list after hearing from the web portal that it plans to have a new team in place next week to respond to spam complaints.
Spam continues to make computer users' lives more stressful - clogging up even more inboxes in December than ever before. According to anti-spam firm Brightmail the amount of spam being sent worldwide is still increasing month-on-month, with...
The latest statistics from spam filtering companies have confirmed their customers' inboxes are getting more spam than legitimate email, increasing concerns over the ongoing usability of the medium. We have calculated] 55.8 percent of all customers...
Spammers are being told they will have to mark all pornographic spam email with the words "Sexually-Explicit:" in the subject line in order to make it easier for people to filter out the obscene emails if they don't want to see it.
Spam is becoming such a bugbear for internet users they're now prepared to swap their ISP to get away from the nuisance of junk mail. According to research from analyst house Gartner, given the choice between two ISPs of the same cost where one was...
UK spam mountain just got bigger The amount of spam stuffed into UK inboxes has quadrupled over the past three months, according to figures from an anti-spam company. And a topic that pressed a few buttons was a silicon.com story about the UK...