Each year since 2008, we have selected an organization that is making a difference in the world to receive a holiday donation on behalf of our customers, partners and friends. This year we have chosen Acumen Fund: …a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems
Recently I returned from the Association of Anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR 2010) conference in Bali, Indonesia, where I got the chance to learn and discuss the latest threats with the colleagues in the antivirus industry, and how to improve our tools and mechanisms to keep up with the challenges we
We detected a new email run of malware and released definition files for it. We call it W32/Trojan2.NLUQ. The email is a bit unusual in its presentation. It grabs scripts and graphics from the Hallmark page which it will display in your email client. All of the clickable links in
This title of this email caught our eye – “privacy” – certainly an amusing way to introduce spam. Closer inspection revealed two interesting tricks, no doubt intended to fool content-based spam filters. The first is the use of almost invisible, random text to break up words which might be detected
The theoretical answer to that question is quite complex but involves a definition like this: “Protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information”. This is a nice definition that ends up conveying a significant amount of information without meaning much at all. I am a pragmatist: I need to model
Since this is my second post on the Commtouch blog I have added a brief intro – I have been working in the antivirus industry since 2004. I’ve served as an Escalation Anti-Virus Engineer at Trend Micro, Inc., a Senior Anti-Malware Analyst at F-Secure, Inc., and currently work as a
We received this email from a friend and immediately suspected that his Yahoo account had been compromised. The subject was clearly not generated by a human and the email contained a single link with some garbled text. Following the link brought us to some exciting special price meds just in
Yes – you should give thanks for anti-spam since it would have prevented you from receiving all sorts of unwanted emails. Like these horrid marketing scams. This group of spammers needs recipients to respond before Thanksgiving in order to claim government grants. The email titles take the email address names
November 13, 2011, Saturday – The world will once again witness two of world boxing’s greatest fighters trading punches in the ring to see who’s the toughest and who will be win the WBC Super Welterweight World Title. For those of you who are not boxing aficionados, more info about
Our partner Openfind Information Technology, Inc., providing message communication, security and assurance solutions and based in Taiwan, have detected increased use of a new technique used to trick users into opening malware executables. The files are distributed via email (compressed). The emails includes standard “you have received an important document
