This variant on traditional spam, which can evade common anti-spam solutions, is on the rise and causing problems, according to government and industry security experts. Security experts warn agencies ...

Computer security experts are struggling to cope with a new type of spam sweeping the internet. The emails can bypass conventional spam filters because they contain images of messages rather than ...

Spam that uses text embedded in images to fool security filters has seen a massive rise recently and now accounts for close to 25pc of all unsolicited email, Barracuda Networks has claimed. The ...

A spam filter is a program used to detect unsolicited, unwanted and virus-infected emails and prevent those messages from getting to a user's inbox. Like other types of filtering programs, a spam ...