Several Commtouch folks (including myself) attended MAAWG in Ft. Lauderdale last week, along with many leading service providers, security vendors, and industry luminaries.  Highlights included a botnet presentation by Commtouch’s CTO, Amir Lev, numerous discussions about the complexity of spam, malware and web abuse, and a golf outing with our partner Message Systems (see pics [...]

During the past several months, I have met with industry thought leaders in network security products and services to discuss the growing threats of botnets, zombies and other ways to describe the issue of compromised hosts.
One of the topics of conversation: what will the bots do next? And do these swiss-army knives of badware [...]

The Ferris daily post pointed me to the Symantec site to see more zombie deconstruction. Take a look at Armado Hidalgo’s post
TAB: So, what is the purpose of all this renewed activity, you ask? The primary goal is to create a botnet that sends tons and tons of penny stock spam (but because the botnet [...]

First post, and I thought I would chip in with some links to other blogs I read occassionally. I saw a presentation by Mykko Hypponen of F-Secure, who gave the keynote at Virus Bulletin 2006 in Montreal. Amazing presentation, and funny too. Who knew viruses, or Finns were that funny. So you can get to [...]