Overview With well-defined rules, you can sort out repeat offenders (junk mail) and zip them directly to the trash folder, so ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs, and promoters of can’t-miss investments choke email inboxes. Improvements to spam filters only seem to inspire new techniques to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have a lot of unwanted messages, clutter is actually the least of your trouble. Spam is a major way that devices become ...

If you use Microsoft Outlook, and your inbox is full of junk this morning, it’s not just you: Many users are reporting that Outlook spam filters aren’t working … Whether you’re accessing Microsoft ...

Critics of aggressive spam filtering have long argued that losing or seriously delaying even one piece of important business e-mail – the dreaded false positive – is an unacceptable price for getting ...

Federal election regulators voted Thursday to allow Google to proceed with a plan to make it easier for campaign emails to bypass spam filters. Google’s proposal to run a pilot project changing the ...