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.

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 ...

Mailshell, a San Francisco software company, is working with the nonprofit site TechSoup.org on a campaign to help charities fight unwanted e-mail messages. The effort will culminate in Mailshell’s ...

Vendors continued to heed companies’ calls for more spam-fighting tools this week, rolling out new enterprise products and services designed to can spam. Both e-mail security provider MX Logic and ...

Founded in 1994, Nemx Software provides content security solutions for Microsoft Exchange servers. The small firm, consisting of only seven full-time staff members, provides anti-spam, anti-virus and ...

While some would say there is no such thing as a free lunch, if by “lunch” they mean canned spam, they’re wrong. A free application called SpamPal will toss your junk mail in the can quietly, ...

Rohnert Park, Calif. – April 29, 2010 – Red Condor, an award-winning provider of fully managed email security solutions, today released version 7.1 of its anti-spam software. The latest software ...

Added to this, spammers are becoming more sophisticated and are constantly managing to outsmart ’static’ methods of fighting spam. The techniques currently used by most anti-spam software are ...

There are two senses of stopping spam – stopping it from filling up our in-boxes and stopping spammers from sending it. Of course, if you solve the first problem, you also solve the second. Spammers ...