Commtouch Enterprise Anti-Spam Gateway is a nice and very effective product [hey, I am objective:)] that helps enterprises to block spam and virus outbreaks. It’s been out there for a long time and it has a solid base of loyal and happy customers all over the world. I know, because I’ve been supporting this product [...]
SANS Institute reported on Monday, June 11 2007, that several well known anti-spam organizations such as Spamhaus, SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists) and URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklist) have been targeted in attempt to bring them down. For the full story read PC World article.
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 [...]
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 [...]
SANS Institute is a serious and, probably, the most trusted information security organization. They issue SANS Newsbit email letter covering interesting security-related news. Today, one of the topics they covered was Securityfocus.com’s article about Storm Worm trojan defeating AV products. Why am I so excited that I even decided to blog about it? Ah, you [...]
Verizon Wireless has won a permanent injunction against Specialized Programming and Marketing LLC, prohibiting the company from sending text message spam to Verizon Wireless customers. Specialized Programming and Marketing is also required to pay $200,000 in damages.
Text message spam has been on the rise in the recent years. Wireless services providers understand that an outbreak [...]
Penn State University researches say they have developed anti-malware technology that can identify and contain worms in milliseconds rather than minutes. The name of this new technology is Proactive Worm Containment, and it focuses on analyzing packet rate, frequency of connections and diversity of connections to other networks, rather than relying on signature or pattern [...]
Just a few days ago I looked at our SpamLab online statistics showing more than 4 million spam outbreaks a day, and I thought to myself “How high will it climb?”. Today I discovered a new record of all times: slightly more than 6,000,000 unique outbreaks per day! Now I wonder how soon it will [...]
