During the fourth quarter of 2009, the Mal-Bredo A virus continued to circulate the world for the second quarter in a row. Cybercriminals morphed its packaging from attachments that appeared to be from internationally known package delivery companies to attachments that appeared to be from Facebook, the popular social networking site.
Throughout the quarter, the number [...]
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 [...]
Amir Lev, Commtouch CTO and president, is now blogging over at ComputerWorld. Each week, he’ll explore new and interesting messaging and Web security trends and topics including:
Spammer tricks
Spam legality around the world
Cultural aspects of spam
Cultural aspects of web filtering
Mac OS malware
“419″ advance-fee fraud
In his first post, Spam Culture, part I: China, Amir examines how cultural [...]
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 video [...]
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 are [...]
With all the talk about Health Care reform in the White House due to a rise in unemployment and a lack of access to affordable health care, it seems health insurance has become a hot topic in spam. The Commtouch Labs recently saw a very sophisticated spam message that included a bogus “Unsubscribe” page in [...]
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 is a [...]
The major news of the second quarter was the massive rise in email-borne viruses not caught by major anti-virus engines. One explanation for the dramatic rise is the appearance of aggressive new variants of several different Trojans. Anti-virus companies have been unable to produce new signatures in time to protect their customers. Some companies try [...]
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.
Please join with me in celebrating the prestigious award that Commtouch was just honored with: The Frost & Sullivan 2008 European Messaging Security Technology Innovation of the Year Award, in recognition of Commtouch’s “superior protection of email inboxes around the globe from unwanted and malicious email.”
Award description and document (requires registration)
Press Release about the award [...]
