The disruption began Saturday (5am Pacific time, Jan .24) affecting approximately 1.8 billion Gmail users worldwide with widespread email misclassification. Gmail’s sophisticated spam protection ...

Google is making it easier for political campaigns in the US to reach Gmail users directly, The New York Times reports.

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 ...

Gmail users will still be able to mark these messages as spam. If users mark more than 0.3% messages as spam, the political ...

A spam filter is a program that automatically processes incoming messages to sift out spam and potentially dangerous computer viruses. There are many types of spam filters, thanks to the ever growing ...

A software routine that deletes incoming spam or diverts it to a "junk" mailbox (see spam folder). Also called "spam blockers," spam filters are built into a user's email program. They are also built ...

Spam filters are often a huge source of frustration for small business owners. While filters can prevent a deluge of electronic junk mail from clogging inboxes, they can suddenly stop working, miss ...

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.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has rejected a Republican National Committee (RNC) complaint claiming that Google violated US law by using Gmail’s spam filter on Republican campaign emails.