Archive for April, 2007

Beware, you gamers!

April 26th, 2007 by Michael Tamir | Category: Miscellaneous | View Comments

In our era of gadgets and the Internet, online gaming is a popular feature of game systems like Sony PS2 and PS3, Microsoft Xbox, or Nintendo Wii. Apparently, along with the joy of online gaming come all the Internet risks too.
According to this McAfee blog post by David Rayhawk, hackers have been working on exploiting [...]

InfoSec Europe: Live from London

April 25th, 2007 by Nikki | Category: Commtouch Lore, Security Conferences | View Comments

Our EMEA constituency is dedicating this week to working the floor of the prestigious InfoSec Europe exhibition being held this week in London. Yael and Elina report bustling crowds and are meeting their share of UTM manufacturers and AV providers. They also met up with enthusiastic members of the Watchguard and Email Systems sales teams [...]

Anti-Spam Coalition formed

April 18th, 2007 by Michael Tamir | Category: Miscellaneous | View Comments

ICSA Labs, a division of CyberTrust, announced the formation of the Anti-Spam Product Developers’ Consortium on April 11, 2007.
Among the coalition members companies like Astaro, COMDOM, Fortinet, IBM, Kaspersky, Proofpoint, SECNAP, Sendio, SonicWALL and Symantec. The coalition plans to meet regularly to discuss issues and devlopments in world of the spam and spam-fighting, to provide [...]

Black Friday: Massive virus outbreak

April 15th, 2007 by Nikki | Category: Miscellaneous | View Comments

PC World New Zealand warns:
Consumer alert: Many antivirus programs fail to catch today’s nasty Storm Worm variant
Read PC World article