John never knew how many friends he had…until he opened the door to a truckload of spam. A short, funny movie about Commtouch RPD technology.

The recently released Commtouch 2007 Q4 Email Threats Trend Report shows that during the last quarter global spam average 80% of all email traffic and reached 96% at it’s peak in October.

Since everyone reports spam levels a little differently, we’d like to take this opportunity to explain how we measure global spam levels here at [...]

Spamnation features an up-to-date list of all the stocks featured in email pump-and-dump scams. Sign up for the RSS feed and get updates automatically.

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, spam and malware lurked behind every click of the mouse.
On December 24th, just in time for the holidays, the Commtouch Detection Center picked up a new blended threat spam outbreak. This time in the form of an innocent looking email with a not-so-innocent hyperlink to a [...]

Earlier this week network security giant Check Point announce that it has integrated all three Commtouch email security technologies into its new UTM-1 network security appliance. By adding Commtouch Anti-spam, Zero-Hour virus outbreak detection & GlobalView mail reputation service, Check Point is showing serious commitment to defending against all types of email-borne threats.
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Anti-Phishing Phil is an online game developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Usable Privacy and Security Lab (CUPS) with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and ARO/CyLab. It’s a fun way to test and improve your ability to spot phishing emails. Try the game out at: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/quiz/index.html

ZDNet’s Richard Stiennon just published his Ten threat predictions for 2008. Number 8 on his list is an ominous warning that we ain’t seen nothing yet from the Storm Trojan peer-to-peer botnet:
8. The world learns what the Storm Trojan is for. The Storm Trojan is one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever. It has [...]

Leading security company and Commtouch partner F-Secure published its semi-annual IT Security Threat Summary today. Their labs have seen the number of malware samples double since the beginning of 2007, from 250,000 to 500,000.

Source: F-Secure
It’s not so much that there are new types of malicious code, but that malware writers are mass producing slightly tweaked [...]

It looks like spammers also get nostalgic around the holiday season. The spammer who sent these stock scams, must have been reminiscing about old-fashioned text spam when this outbreak was concocted.  The sad truth is this kind of low-tech spam can still get thru a lot of content-based filters, since the trading symbol of a [...]

There is no shortage of email scams out there, many of them appearing to be job offers from legitimate employment websites such as careerbuilder.com and monster.com. A UK based website www.bobbear.co.uk is striking back by publishing an updated web repository of such scams. Now anyone who wants to check if the job inquiry they got [...]