A recent article in the New Scientist entitled “To beat spam, turn its own weapons against it”, describes the work done by a team of academics to find a more effective way to filter spam. The team, from ICSI Berkeley and UC San Diego, have come up with a way of analyzing the spam email messages sent by [...]
Open source leverages the creativity of thousands whilst relying on the management of a limited number of contributors to maintain and debug the software. While open source creates true positive results such as Linux, a glitch in the most widely-used free Anti-Spam software – SpamAssassin – resulted in false positives and rejection of legitimate mail. [...]
Unbeknownst to computer owners, malware infects millions of computers around the world. Many times, these malicious software programs create “zombies,” or “bots” where the computer is taken over by an outside party and used to send spam or perform other notorious processes. An army of zombies makes up a “botnet,” which is a network of [...]
Earlier this month Commtouch participated in the cPanel Conference in Houston, Texas. This annual event, now in its 4th year, brings together a wide group of attendees, from Linux engineers to company executives. The three day event offers hosting providers the opportunity to meet with leading cPanel partners and industry gurus to learn how to [...]
In last week’s blog post, I discussed how open source messaging security solutions are not really “free,” as many would believe. These solutions have associated operational, capital and productivity costs that are often overlooked and in the end, might even cost you much more than a good commercial solution. Have a look at our short [...]
Hosting providers select open source over commercial solutions as they’re free. But are they really free? Yes, the download is free, but how about managing and supporting the system. Is that free? And if the software isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do, aren’t there costs associated with that? Ok, here’s the answer. Yes, there [...]
The most important relationships can be hard to maintain but are worth every effort. Then there are the relationships you don’t want to maintain at all – but once you find yourself in them, you realize you can’t get out. In a recent study conducted for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), of which Commtouch [...]
Last week, SmarterTools and Commtouch announced an agreement, providing our Anti-Spam technology as an optional add-on for their SmarterMail mail server software. SmarterTools evaluated more than a half dozen technologies before deciding on Commtouch’s Anti-Spam SDK, and according to them: Many were solid enough, but had antispam measures very similar to the sets that were [...]
MailChannels integrates email traffic shaping with Commtouch filtering technology to create a powerful new anti-spam solution for the hosting industry. View the full release.
Commtouch’s partner Hauri, from Korea, came out with their new ViRobot Mail Security just in time for the holidays, for that favorite IT Manager on your gift list. The Hauri product has Commtouch Anti-Spam integrated in it.
