We’ve all known for a while that blogspot, the popular blogger platform from Google, has been a huge source of spam sites, or rather sites that re-direct to spam sites. Steve Rubel wrote about this as long ago as last year. But did you know that for the past several weeks, the Commtouch Detection Center [...]
Spammers and spyware operators are trying the luck of the Irish to get some more unsuspecting folks into their web. Here’s the latest St. Patty’s day ecard spam outbreak shared with me by our global detection center. Click the link and if you are based in the US you will have some spyware downloaded to [...]
Blue skies, 25 degrees (77 F), the artificial sea looks very inviting…that’s what I was thinking about while I was taking my 20-minute walk to the convention center in the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas (and not for the first time that day). Mandalay Bay hotel was the location of the annual US Check [...]
Scammers are always looking for new ways to hide their intentions, both from message recipients, as well as automated email filters. One new trick Commtouch has started to see recently is the use of calendar-update messages generated from legitimate sites, such as Google or Yahoo. Since these messages need to be generated manually, they only [...]
As happens every year, several representatives of Commtouch chose to freeze their #%*@’s off, sleep in sub-standard accommodations, and wear out their shoe-leather at that “is it a tradeshow or is it a city” otherwise known as CeBIT. It’s the event people love to hate. However, creature-comforts aside, CeBIT is a great location for [...]
Commtouch launched its Art@Work program on Thursday, where we turned the walls of our Netanya headquarters into a gallery, to display the beautiful photographs of Iris London-Zolty. A fuller description of her work and copies of the photographs displayed here is available at http://www.commtouch.com/Site/Company/ArtAtWork.asp. Below you can see some photos from the opening event.
The Commtouch Detection Center just sent me a sample of the latest blended threat trying to continue to spread Storm around, being sent out by zombies:
Subject: Your ecard horoscope is waiting!
Body: Come get your personal funny postcard. You’ll bust a gut!
Following this poetic message is a hyperlink to an IP address
which shows the image [...]
