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The long-awaited Mailbox app is here—prompting an enthusiastic response from tech expert Richard Gorman. New York, New York (PRWEB) February 11, 2013 According to technology enthusiast and app-lover Richard Gorman, hype has been building for some time over a new app that promises to revolutionize e-mail maintenance and organization. The app, simply called Mailbox, has received laudatory reviews from technology pundits lucky enough to test it out over the last several months—and now,...

By Jon Swartz SAN FRANCISCO -- E-mail users worldwide are being buried in a blizzard of bounced messages caused by spammers. Dubbed "backscatter spam," this latest fad is clogging e-mail accounts and slowing victims' inboxes to a crawl. Up to 3% of all e-mail today is backscatter, says Dmitry Samosseiko, manager of SophosLabs Canada. "It is a major problem, and it is getting worse," he says. How it works: Spammers collect real e-mail addresses, often through computer...

Webroot, a provider of security software, has released its Webroot E-mail Security SaaS, which is claimed to offer protection against the threat of e-mail backscatter. According to the company, a side effect of spam, viruses and worms, backscatter occurs when a spammer spoofs a legitimate e-mail address to send an unsolicited message to large distribution lists, causing the e-mail server to flood an unsuspecting e-mail address of owner's mailbox with large number of failed delivery messages...