The crucial element to any effective anti-spam solution – software, appliance or other – is software. The growth of spam in the past five years has created such a deluge that anti-spam technology has ...

We’ve all heard about the cost of spam – the several seconds that individual users spend reading each spam message multiplied by the number of junk messages they receive each day multiplied by their ...

Computer security analysts who fight spam face the same thankless task as goalkeepers: They don’t get much credit for the unsolicited e-mail they stop, only demerits for the ones that get through. But ...

Network Associates on Monday acquired anti-spam software provider Deersoft, the first in a series of acquisitions the company plans to make to help people thwart unsolicited e-mail. Financial terms of ...