Use your phone’s “Silence Unknown Callers” (iPhone) or spam protection settings (Android) to automatically block or send un ...

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 ...

Years ago, email spam was a huge problem. There was an escalating war between spammers and spam filters. Eventually, spam filter technology won. Although email spam is still a thing, the vast majority ...

Verizon has announced it is partnering with Apple to fight the onslaught of robocalls plaguing users, starting with the release of iOS 14. With iOS 14, Verizon's Call Filter app will be offering ...

Researchers recently launched a free spam-filtering service for Twitter that flags offenders for the microblogging service, which, in turn, removes the offending accounts. The Spamdetector service ...

The search giant is now using savvier machine learning to better tell which messages are legit and which ones are junk. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Hatred of spam calls and robocalls is one of the few certainties of life you could put right up there with the inevitability of death and taxes. They're universally despised, while also metastasizing ...