I had planned to blog from RSA in San Francisco last week, even if it meant just one line every now & then. But I was so caught up in meetings, and visiting our partners on the show floor, and oh yes, our happy hour , that somehow blogging took a back [...]
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnD50mSvLPk
Commtouch publicized the new Malware Outbreak Center earlier this week, a resource on our web site to learn about new malware variants, and comparative catch-times for each of the AV engines. All very nice info for Commtouch commercial purposes, to try to convince AV and mail security vendors to add Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection [...]
In case you don’t understand the cryptic headline, I’ll explain: part of our work in detecting and blocking spam is collecting information about spam sites that spammers try to drive users to visit. This web-related data that we gather from analyzing billions of messages each day will actually form a big piece of Commtouch’s next [...]
McAfee security researcher Nick Kelly raised a concern on his blog that the recent rash of Excel spam could develop to include macro exploits. We did see a mini-macro comeback last year, so this is certainly a possibility, though I haven’t seen any samples yet.
PDF spam could also carry a potential malware threat as that [...]
We all know that the evil forces behind spam, beyond being evil, are also quite prolific. In the tit-for-tat war between junkmail senders and the anti-spam community, the junkers have come up with yet another trick - PDF spam. Some of what we are seeing is really just ‘Image spam 2.0′ because it’s just another [...]
Over the last week or so there has been an outbreak of a new type of email-borne malware. The latest wave of the notorious Storm malware is being distributed via emails that appear to be ecards sent by family and friends. The link to view the card leads users to a malicious website that attempts [...]
From Security_Watchdog blog:
“The Internet Engineering Task Force has granted preliminary approval to DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). The platform promises to kill spam by preventing spoofing. DomainKeys attaches an encrypted digital signature unique to the sender to each email when it is sent…. ”
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Virus signature update mistakes critical Windows files for malware.
“It’s a terrible day for lots of Chinese users (especially Enterprise Users) who use Norton products today,” CISRT said. “This issue has made a huge effection to Chinese people.” Other reports claimed that more than 7,000 users had already contacted Rising Antivirus, a Chinese security company, asked [...]
Matt Hines at InfoWorld reports:
Security researchers have been touting the growing nature of professionalism among virus authors over the last several years, but new evidence points to increased cooperation between malware writers spread around the globe, according to some experts.
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