Let's face it, if you received an email seemingly from a friend or relative which mentions your own name, or a family member's name in the subject line there is every chance you'll click on it - even if you subsequently discover it's just another...
According to research from network specialist Sandvine, around 85 per cent of email leaving residential broadband-connected PCs is spam. These bot-nets provide enough combined computing power and bandwidth for them to be able to spam almost every...
The media, the industry and the end users, now largely convinced effective technology rather than policy will start to turn around the high levels of spam have been promised an improvement in return for our patience.
That is one finding of a recent SurfControl survey which also revealed a third of business email users are still very concerned about false positives - emails wrongly identified as spam - being blocked or deleted.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said this week it lacks the power to fight spam because the government has not had time to discuss implementing effective powers. These powers were granted under a small percentage of PECR but go nowhere...
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...
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