Archive for October, 2007
Spammers have once again sunk their fangs into Halloween and flooded email with holiday themed threats. When I was a kid parents feared tainted trick-or-treat candy. Now they can add spyware and computer viruses to their list of worries.
Keep your eyes out for a “dancing skeleton” spam attack which contains links to malicious web sites. [...]
The recently released Commtouch Q3 2007 Email Threats Trends Report shows that global spam levels reached as high as 95% during the last three months.
Every quarter when we report this statistic we say to ourselves ‘Wow, that’s really high! It couldn’t possibly get any higher,’ and every ensuing quarter spam proves it can. Altough 95% [...]
When SpaMP3 hit the airwaves, some experts recommended blocking MP3 attachments, for example Sophos, and even SC Magazine. A spokesperson for GFI was quoted as saying “How many companies do you know that use MP3 files for business use?”
I agree, MP3 isn’t the most broadly used file-type in most businesses, however there are some businesses [...]
Way back in March, CTO Amir Lev was quoted in a SearchSecurity article as saying that audio spam shouldn’t be too far away. We even went so far as to create some samples in our labs (no, we didn’t give them to any spammers :). And finally, as of late last night, the spammers have [...]
Pretty @#$% quickly if you heard Amir Lev, Commtouch’s CTO speaking at the Ferris Webinar yesterday, together with Ferris’ Richi Jennings.
The webinar was about understanding mail reputation services, and Amir gave an overview of different types of reputation services, as well as a sneak peak into Commtouch’s GlobalView Mail Reputation Service, a new version of [...]
The company announced today that 9 new OEM deals were signed in Q3, bringing the total licensing partners to 82.
Which begs the obvious question: why are there still so many companies looking for innovative, content-neutral anti-spam and anti-malware solutions? The answer may be in the Osterman report quoted in the press release, which states that [...]
