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Swirl the scam callers like a glass of martini.

Symantec finds 5 out of the 6 most commonly used words in spam have exclamation points. These punctuation marks activate the human alarm system

A bug found in all major browsers allows phishers to bypass spam e-mail filters and employ a new attack called in-session phishing to steal online banking credentials and personal data. Here's how users can avoid becoming victims

The war on spam is far from over, but there was a growing sense among the antispam crusaders gathered at MIT last week that advances on both the legal and technology fronts have turned the tide against the Viagra peddlers and Nigerian princesses. Nobody was claiming that spam will ever be completely eliminated, or even that the amount of spam is decreasing.

Domain registrar VeriSign Inc. defended its now-suspended Site Finder search tool recently, saying concerns about its effect on the stability of the Internet and on the amount of spam are overblown.

Privacy advocates are warning that recent changes to the .com and .net database of domain names by VeriSign Inc. could violate the privacy of millions of Internet users, inadvertently sending confidential e-mail content and Web surfing data to VeriSign's systems.

A new study shows that 11.7 per cent of messages that were requested by an e-mail subscriber never reached the recipient's inbox. Six per cent were incorrectly routed to a junk-mail folder, and 5.7 per cent never arrived in any form.