If I am blocking some eastern European IP address, and if I know this spammers' identity, why wouldn't I share that with my neighbourhood. The companies have joined to tackle technical issues related to spam and email viruses at the network level...
Earlier methods of fighting spam focused on certain aspects: blocking email from an address, or with the word sex in the subject line, for example. But a group of researchers and developers who gathered in the US on Friday hopes to halt that by...
Microsoft's MSN has admitted that its email services have been blocking incoming mails from rival ISPs earlier this week, after their networks were banned as sources of junk mail. Antispammers say that MSN's action in blocking the rival ISPs was...
As spam-filtering technologies become more common, spammers have altered the construction of their messages to avoid detection. Alun Davies, European VP of marketing at internet software firm Rockliffe, said his company's products will soon be...
In the long run, DomainKeys is more promising than existing anti-spam and anti-phishing technologies, which rely on techniques such as assembling a "blacklist" of known fraudsters or detecting such messages by trying to identify common...
That way, ISPs and email providers could help prevent email fraud, one of the chief frustrations for anti-spam fighters. The suits claim that hundreds of unnamed defendants sent messages using false email addresses - a violation of the newly...