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 [...]
I may have disappeared for the last couple weeks, but the spam and malware did not, so this post is a roundup of various outbreaks that I wasn’t able to report on at the moment they happened. In parentheses is the date I would have (should’ve could’ve) reported on these items had I been truly [...]
Some interesting trends are becoming pretty apparent in the messaging security arena. The one that I’d like to point out here is the use of robots or zombies being used to distribute email threats. This phenomena is definitely making it’s mark by changing the playing field for messaging security vendors a bit. So, in fact [...]
