There’s been some talk about the latest incarnation of spam that perverts legitimate sites for the purpose of commercial spam, a subject we have been discussing for a while on this blog, starting back in January. A few interesting articles on Google Docs spam came out this week based on some outreach by MessageLabs. (InternetNews, [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, the Israeli Commtouch team took a daytrip last week to the Sea of Galilee (aka Kinneret) for some food, fun, and above all, bonding. Some new folks have joined the team over the past several months, and there is nothing like a dusty hike, combined with tasty meals [...]
I just got back from a long, hot but very enjoyable day trip with the Israeli team to the Sea of Galilee, so I’ll keep this brief (and will post the pics from the trip tomorrow). Commtouch spam analysts informed me about a new outbreak of “love” malware which began around 18:00 UK time yesterday, [...]
A riddle for you: when is being in the top three not cause to celebrate? The answer: when the ranking is for the top three largest mailboxes in the company.
Yesterday I was kindly informed by our IT dept. that my mailbox is one of the fattest in the company. I knew it was time [...]
It’s serious egg on my face time. Let me explain.
To track our interaction with partners and potential partners, we use the well-known CRM system, Salesforce.com. As I have mentioned in a previous post, we try to be very careful only to email people to who have requested to receive our mail. This is [...]
A notable anniversary slipped by at the weekend with the announcement that the very first ’spam’ email was sent on May 3rd 1978. Long before the Internet became part of everyday life there was Arpanet developed by the US Department of Defense.
According to The Times on May 3rd 2008, it was a marketing person [...]
Last month we released our new service – GlobalView Zombie Intelligence. Commtouch Zombie Intelligence is a real-time feed of data containing zombies IPs along with rich information about their activity and behavior.
As a result of our research and development in the field of zombies and bots, we are constantly gathering a vast amount of data [...]
You may recall that we wrote about spammers who used Microsoft hotmail content within the source of their messages, hidden from the reader (except for those techies who right-click & hit “view source”). Well, I spammers must have liked the results and wanted to take it a step further. The latest trick is to put [...]
