Email

Taking one step forward and two steps back with the spam problem

Just as it seems we’re getting a handle on soaring levels of spam emails a key tool is changed for the worse By the end of Q3 this year, just under 60% of email was deemed spam. That’s almost two in every three emails being a nuisance, or potentially dangerous to global email users. Businesses really…Continue Reading: Taking one step forward and two steps back with the spam problem

The internet is 50 years old but email scams are still rife

While email turned 50 years old in November 2021, it wasn’t until the commercialization of the internet in the mid-90s that it truly took off as one of the world’s preeminent communications tools. Unfortunately, its rise also spawned meteoric misuse as unscrupulous scammers began peddling unwanted products, bogus deals, and even computer viruses to the masses…Continue Reading: The internet is 50 years old but email scams are still rife