This week in Security Levity, I’m digging further into the topic of spam filtering technology. Today, I want to talk about why spam filtering seems to be such a continual challenge for filter vendors.

A spam filter is a program that automatically processes incoming messages to sift out spam and potentially dangerous computer viruses. There are many types of spam filters, thanks to the ever growing ...

“Are @gmail's spam filters broken? I've had a sudden influx of some crazy #NSFW spam in my inbox! What's going on #Gmail?” - source “It is a strangely comforting thing that I can just search for ...

Conservatives are split over whether Google email filters are flagging Republican lawmakers’ emails as spam and thereby unfairly censoring them. A recent study found that Google has disproportionately ...

The spam problem goes far beyond annoying solicitations for questionable products. These days, it's a frequent vector for identity theft, ransomware and more. Photo by scanrail/stock.adobe.com The ...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there were no graphical e-mail clients. So what you had to do to get your mail was to connect a server with telnet over the network, or directly over a modem ...

A new feature from Google for Google Voice takes the power of the “Report Spam” button and multiplies it exponentially. Google is applying the collected data from thousands of Google Voice users to ...

A new spam filter for Microsoft's Hotmail service is not only bouncing US$198 Florida land deals and instant diplomas from in-boxes, it's also thwarting email sent from subscribers to themselves. One ...

For those who have always wondered why some e-mails arrive in Gmail’s spam folder, Google has updated the service to explain to what determines that spam is spam. Ela Czajka, a software engineer with ...

A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious letter from a lover, or the daily tally from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would you read first? Programmers at a small software company say ...