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.

Here is a rundown of spam-filtering techniques and some steps you can take to minimize false positives for spam in your organization Spam. It fills our in-boxes, wastes our time and spreads malware — ...

or some, spam is like ants at a picnic: uninvited, ubiquitous and annoying. For many others, whose uninvited e-mails flood their computer mailbox, it’s an expensive headache. Try as you might, ...

A new Return Path study, conducted by Forrester Consulting, reveals that most corporations employ a variety of spam-filtering techniques, not just one. This finding indicates that B2B e-mail marketers ...

Spammers are combining their circumvention techniques into a "triple threat" to increase the efficacy of their attacks, according to Symantec. Paul Wood, MessageLabs intelligence senior analyst, ...

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 ...

Virtela, a provider of managed VPN services, is now offering spam filtering, virus checking and content filtering to help its enterprise customers reduce threats from ...

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 ...

Spam. It fills our in-boxes, wastes our time and spreads malware — and it’s only getting worse. According to Ferris Research, which studies messaging and content control, 40 trillion spam messages are ...

To minimize the false positives caused by spam filters, it helps to know a bit about how they work. To keep up with ever more sophisticated spam, filters have used a variety of techniques over the ...