The company said its spam-blocking method differed from those of its competitors because it targets the use of its service to send junk mail out, rather than targeting unsolicited mail on its way into members' inboxes.
Weak security, such as mail servers with relays left open for exploitation by spammers, has also been blamed for the flood of junk mail from the region. Based on a threshold set by an administrator, the message will be forwarded to either the...
The UK government's anti-spam crackdown is likely to fail at tackling the problem of unsolicited email and will help spammers look as if they are acting legitimately, according to a legal expert. Linford said that 90 per cent of the world's...
Junk email essentially would be treated like junk postal mail, with non-fraudulent email legalised until the recipient chooses to unsubscribe. The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve anti-spam legislation that could end more...
Spamhaus tracks spamming operations across the world and operates a blacklist that helps ISPs to block some of the many millions of unsolicited junk emails they try and send every day. When the government introduced the privacy and electronic...
The taskforce has been given two years to develop and promote an anti-spam "tool-kit" with practical anti-spam strategies and to devise a public awareness campaign to support a global crackdown on junk email.