Network protection provider Internet Security Systems said Wednesday that it is acquiring privately held security software maker Cobion for $32.8 million to increase its spam filtering capabilities.

Jeff Schwartz recently received an inquiry from a senior executive at a major wireless telephone carrier, asking if he could provide some product information about the software his company produces.

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 ...

We currently have an on-premise Barracuda spam filter. It blocks a lot of incoming spam, I'd say 95%+ of all our incoming email is spam and is blocked. However we have a LOT of email that gets through ...

ITS is adding an additional layer of security to Brandeis staff, faculty, and student email accounts. Email protection provides enhanced email security to further protect your Brandeis email account ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dated August 28, 2025, Ferguson claimed Republican fundraising emails are being flagged ...

The migration to IPv6 calls for a paradigm shift in mindset for spam protection, according to an industry expert. Manish Goel, CEO of TrustSphere, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that the current ...

There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Anecdotal evidence from Gmail users—including the author of this story—suggests that something changed with Gmail’s spam filter settings in recent weeks, resulting in the email provider letting ...

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 ...

Well I had never noticed this before, but today I got 3 authentic emails that Google labeled as spam. I thought the spam filters on most major websites were very careful as to what they select as spam ...