Spam filters used by some of the most popular email providers are failing to prevent junkmail attacks, with one service offering as low as two per cent protection. A study by US-based eTesting labs trialled 15 email providers over ten consecutive...
This summer, email appliance maker IronPort Systems licensed Brightmail's antispam technology for its newest product, the IronPort C60. It also sells a commercial version that includes email management and filtering services to protect enterprises...
Irish Data Protection Commissioner Joe Meade is calling on other European countries to follow his lead and get tough on spam - despite widespread public concerns about the effectiveness of anti-spam legislation.
Spam has risen to such heights partly because of a fundamental weakness in the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP, the messaging protocol that has defined email for more than two decades. Using SMTP, email recipients have no way of determining...
Johnson said: "Setting aside rewriting SMTP, email authentication is the best thing we have today," referring to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, the basic technology behind email. Email and SMTP was this great open standard, we just have to be a...
Spam-filtering appliances were found to be slightly more effective than software filters but the level of customer dissatisfaction remained similar for email client and appliance spam filters, at 78 and 73 per cent dissatisfied respectively.
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