This morning when I dropped by the spam analysts’ work area for my daily check of “what’s new in spam” I noticed they were in a bit of a tizzy. Spam levels had dropped from their usual high levels and they were looking for the reason why.
We’ve seen spam levels growing pretty steadily over the [...]
Commtouch is pleased to have been selected as #7 in the 2008 Deloitte Israel Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Israel. To determine the fastest growing companies, Deloitte reviewed fiscal year revenues over five years (2003-2007), calculated the revenue growth percentage over five years, and compared [...]
Luckily there are creative people who will take even one of the most annoying things - SPAM - and turn it into something positive, that is, artwork.
Artist Linzie Hunter has created a series of “one-liners” where she took spam subject lines and experimented with hand-lettering, turning them into works of art. Below is the cover [...]
I just returned from Madrid, where I represented Commtouch at 3Com’s TechConnect EMEA event, which was a great time. Together with 3Com’s Sean Newman, Product Manager, I presented the new messaging security in 3Com’s X-Family Unified Security Platforms to eager attendees comprised of their extended sales force. People are excited about the new GlobalView Mail [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Now that I have been officially accepted into the “Security Bloggers Group” on LinkedIn (very cool!), I realize it’s time I shared some of my opinions on things rather than simply reporting on this or that malware outbreak (although some of you have indicated to me that the objective reporting of news in the messaging [...]
As always, spammers are looking for the “news hook” to get their spam through to users’ inboxes. And this week is no holiday, but it is (in the USA at least) tax season. With taxes due April 15, spammers have geared up their efforts at spewing out quantities of tax-related spam. Here is a selection [...]
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 [...]
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.
