According to spam-fighter Brightmail, unsolicited bulk mail volumes skyrocketed last year, now accounting for close to a third of all traffic on the internet, up from just eight per cent in mid-2001. Filtering techniques have also, in some cases...
Mail filtering specialist MessageLabs has come in for criticism after it was blocked by AOL's spam filters amid allegations that it had an open relay which was pumping out spam. One customer, who contacted silicon.com anonymously, to complain about...
Bulk emailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick. Unsolicited bulk email likely makes up a third of the email traffic seen on the...
The group is emerging at a time when spam has reached crushing proportions; more than half of all email sent is unsolicited bulk messages. One objective of the telecom group is to agree on a standard for preventing IP spoofing - the practice of...
The spammers in question were sending out unsolicited pornographic emails and their assets have been frozen and a temporary injunction put in place preventing them from sending any emails, ahead of a hearing and a possible permanent injunction.
Sender ID has not been a success because it is not very highly regarded, said Ray Everett-Church, co-founder of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail and co-author of the book Fighting Spam for Dummies.