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Commtouch launches new Online Security Center

mxlab — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:13:33 +0000

Commtouch launches the new Online Security Center at http://www.commtouch.com/security-center featuring information and statistics regarding spam and malware outbreaks, the real time spam outbreak monitor and other messaging and Web threats.

Commtouch Honored with Deloitte Technology Fast 50

mxlab — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:46:08 +0000

Commtouch, one of our technology partners, has been honored with the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. Read the full article.

Q3 2008 Email Threats Trend Report

mxlab — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:49:39 +0000

“Internet users got little reprieve during the third quarter of 2008 as email and web continued to be the avenues of choice for Internet threats. Blended-threat emails, particularly hyperlinks to malicious material hosted on the Internet, have become a leading tactic. Blended-threats have become increasingly popular over the past year, due to their relative success at evading many security solutions.”

The co-branded MX Lab – Commtouch Q3 2008 Email Threats Trend Report is available for download.

Flash being used in spam emails

mxlab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:50:53 +0000

Spammers often include links in their messages directing to web sites. These links are most of the time in the form of a URL including .html, .htm, .asp, .php or something similar.

A new spam trick includes now to include an URL directing to an Flash animation with the .swf extension. Most browsers will play the Flash movie even if this one isn’t embedded in an .html page.

The Flash contains no animation but a redirect to a web site with the spammers offer.

Commtouch reports that the messages arrived in small quantities on Saturday, and by Monday, July 28, had become a massive outbreak. 7000 URLs have been created and used in millions of spam messages.

“John never knew how many friends he had…”

mxlab — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:01:14 +0000

“…until he opened the door to a truckload of spam.”

A short movie about the Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) technology that provides the best detection versus accuracy performance and detects spam or malware in the first few minutes of an outbreak, unlike other anti-spam approaches.

Watch the video at the MX Lab web site.

Commtouch Blog

mxlab — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:25:02 +0000

Our friends at Commtouch have recently opened a blog too. Check it out.