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Dec. 27, 2006 InformationWeek 2006 Declared Year of the Zombies On average, spam accounted for 87% of e-mail traffic this year, a 30% increase over a year ago. Full story ... Dec. 27, 2006 Technology News Daily Global Botnets Bombard the Internet with Spam Commtouch® released its 2006 Spam Trends Report: Year of the Zombies based on real-time analysis of more than two billion messages globally each week. Full story ... Dec. 27, 2006 TechWeb 2006 Declared Year of the Zombies New sophisticated spamming techniques overcame traditional anti-spam methods, such as content filtering, heuristics, and IP address blacklisting... Full story ... Dec. 21, 2006 Telecom Paper Openwave, Commtouch Software to combat spam, malware Leading Edge Anti-Abuse Solution to Offer Secure, Real-Time Protection for Service Providers Worldwide Full story ... Dec. 13, 2006 Datamation Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? Ferris Messaging Analyst Richi Jennings says: New botnets are employing content-morphing tricks that are fooling many vendors' content filters, so more spam reaches the inbox. Full story ... Dec. 7, 2006 United Press International High spam levels choke business broadband Full story ... Oct. 26, 2006 Network World Messaging Newsletter Combating spam is getting tougher Michael Osterman reviews Commtouch's IP Reputation as a solution to combat the growing spam problem. Full story ... Oct. 19, 2006 ClickZ The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, September 2006 An increase in spam attacks in the third quarter was spotted by Commtouch. The bulk of the uptick came from image spam and zombie-generated spam. Image spam accounted for half of all spam in Q3, versus 30 percent the previous quarter. As many as 3.5 million attack patterns were spotted in a single day, with each pattern comprised of up to tens of thousands of e-mails. Full story ... Oct. 18, 2006 Online Casinos Online Spam Getting Worse On average, image-based spam accounts for 30 percent of all spam. Since it is typically five to eight times larger than text spam, total bandwidth consumption and redundant storage necessitated by spam has more than doubled since the beginning of the year. Full story ... Sep. 27, 2006 EDN Asia Terrace boosts email protection appliance with Commtouch technology "The Commtouch anti-spam technology met and exceeded all of our expectations. The solution is the best fit for our customers, especially since it proves most effective in screening email containing double-byte Asian language characters. Commtouch also offers protection against all the latest trends in spamming, such as image-based spam, that other filters can't catch." Full story ... Sep. 6, 2006 Roth Capital Partners Listen to a webcast of Commtouch CEO Gideon Mantel's presentation at Roth Capital Partners Full story ... Aug. 25, 2006 SDA Asia Threats to the Digital Economy Various viruses, spyware, identity theft, and keylogging engulf the Internet toady. The Digital Economy Factbook sums up all the threats that the cyber community faces in today’s technology centric era. According to the 2006 edition of the book released by Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF), 18.3 percent of the world's Internet users are from the United States, while 11.1 percent are from China and 8 percent are from Japan. Full story ... Aug. 3, 2006 SearchCIO Image-Based Spam Scams on the Rise "Without blocking image-based spam, it would probably lead to a 25% increase of storage space and bandwidth," said Stephen Laughlin, director of information technology at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Los Angeles organization that hands out television's Emmy Awards. "Email storage space is already at a premium, so there's not a lot to give up. People want as much as they can get." Full story ... Aug. 3, 2006 Wall Street Reporter Interviews Commtouch CEO Gideon Mantel (requires registration) Live interview available as Windows Media or Real Player. Full story ... July 27, 2006 IT Compliance Institute Survey of IT Managers: Anti-Virus Providers Fail to Deliver Complete Protection The survey shows that even though every enterprise has some form of anti-virus (AV) protection in place, 93 percent of companies have been infiltrated by at least one type of Malware. Since signatures are fully effective once they are released, this level of vulnerability is primarily due to exposure before new signatures are released (zero-hour exposure). Full story ... July 26, 2006 SearchSecurity.com Image spam paints a troubling picture "Spammers are being cleverer in how they're sending and coding the images," [Ferris Research analyst Richi] Jennings said. In the past, for instance, spammers would add random dots to their messages or put a border of dots around a message that contained random dots." Full story ... July 25, 2006 India Times Spam gets a face While using images in spam is not a new concept, changing the image in real-time in each delivered spam message is a relatively new capability that the spammers have acquired. This is due to the development of a new software that randomizes images in a high-performance fashion and allow spammers to send millions of those every hour. This randomizing technique creates unique spam messages and makes their detection and filtering virtually impossible. Full story ... July 25, 2006 SC Magazine Study: Email-borne malware successfully hit 80 percent of businesses "Virus attacks are much more aggressive and sophisticated than in the past, with zombies distributing rapid, broadly based attacks, with multiple variations of each virus," said Michael Osterman, principal of the research firm. "The best way for companies to avoid being hit is to implement a proactive virus protection solution that does not rely on signatures." Full story ... July 24, 2006 Dark Reading Malware Hits Enterprises Commtouch's Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Protection software successfully detects malware outbreaks during the crucial early hours of an outbreak, often well-before new anti-virus signatures or heuristics rules to block the virus are available. Full story ... July 24, 2006 Cayman Net News High Spam Levels Choke Business Broadband "There are companies that archive everything, to be on the safe side. Spam then takes up a huge amount of space." Full story ... July 24, 2006 ConnectIT Despite AV software, companies hit by malware If your business has been breached by e-mail-based malware, you're not alone. In fact, according to a study...nearly nine out of 10 businesses have felt the impact of viruses, Trojan horses and worms. Full story ... July 18, 2006 Network World Image Spam Requires More Resources to Manage Michael Osterman discusses Commtouch's findings about Image Spam. Full story ... July 18, 2006 The Post Chronicle High Spam Levels Choke Business Broadband On days when image-based spam achieves such a distribution peak, the global bandwidth and storage consumed by spam grows by more than 70 percent. Full story ... July 18, 2006 Monsters and Critics High spam levels choke business broadband Part of the reason for the recent jump in bandwidth and storage taken up by spam is the new trend of sending image-based spam. These messages look like regular text but are actually much heavier images that are much harder for e-mail filters to catch. Full story ... July 18, 2006 Computing News Declude's Solution Has Commtouch's Zero-Hour Virus Protection Declude has integrated Commtouch's Zero-Hour virus protection and real-time spam blocking capabilities into its Email vulnerability detection solution. Full story ... July 12, 2006 Technology News Daily Image Spam Causes Bandwidth Bloat The cost of storage becomes a crucial factor for large organizations that save all of their email, especially in the age of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA compliance. Full story ... July 6, 2006 The Post Chronicle Anti-Spam Firm Reports Successful Q2 Commtouch reports on seven new OEM agreements and new management appointments. Full story ... July 6, 2006 Trading Markets Commtouch Software Appoints CFO, VP; Signs Seven New OEM Licensing Agreements - Update The company expanded services to over forty OEM partners around the globe. Full story ... June 29, 2006 San Jose Mercury News People on the Move Commtouch of Mountain View, a provider of virus protection technology, named Ron Ela chief financial officer. Full story ... June 27, 2006 The Arab News Net Attracts Wacky World Cup Antics Due to the length of the World Cup, there’s plenty of time for Internet resources to be leveraged to take advantage of the intense focus on this event. Over the past few weeks, spammers have been on the attack, trying to score with irritating and sometimes fraudulent e-mails. Full story ... June 26, 2006 Reuters Commtouch names new CFO Full story ... June 26, 2006 TMCnet [June 26, 2006] Commtouch Software Ltd. Announces Ron Ela as New Chief Financial Officer Full story ... June 19, 2006 BBC Radio Lincolnshire Drive Time with William Wright BBC's William Wright interviews Rebecca Herson, Senior Marketing Director of Commtouch, on the tens of thousands of World Cup Spam messages which have hit inboxes since the games began. Download file June 19, 2006 Post Chronicle Spammers Take Advantage Of World Cup The World Cup is a field day for beer advertisers, travel agents, and now, it seems, junk e-mailers: soccer spam has popped up in almost every language. Full story ... June 19, 2006 United Press International Spammers take advantage of World Cup While some of (the World Cup junk e-mail) is actually related to the month-long (soccer tournament) taking place in Germany, most of it mentions the World Cup in order to sell typical spam offerings such as mortgages, online gambling and travel. Full story ... June 19, 2006 Finanzen.net World Cup Spam: The Inbox is the Goal While the football forwards are playing offense on the field, spammers are making offensive maneuvers of their own, trying to leverage the World Cup for their own gain. Full story ... June 19, 2006 Netherlands Corporate News World Cup-spam: inbox als goal; spammers in de aanval met frauduleuze World Cup-berichten World Cup spam has emerged in almost every language, and while some of it is actually related to the month-long football games taking place in Germany, most of it mentions the World Cup in order to sell typical spam offerings such as mortgages, online gambling and travel. Full story ... June 19, 2006 IT News Online, India Spammers Capitalize on FIFA World Cup Football fever is at an all time high with FIFA World Cup 2006 Germany and spammers are trying their best to leverage the World Cup for their own gain. Commtouch, a provider of anti-spam software, has identified tens of thousands of FIFA World Cup-related spam messages, with some containing what appear to be fraudulent offers. Full story ... June 9, 2006 SC Magazine AV management 2006 Full story ... May 25, 2006 Network World Messaging Newsletter Spamming and phishing with pictures and voice Commtouch's Recurrent Pattern Detection technology uses a variety of sophisticated algorithms that can detect image-based spam, including variations in the same message. Full story ... May 24, 2006 Network World F-Secure adds Commtouch’s Zero-Hour technology to security products F-Secure has chosen to integrate Commtouch’s Zero-Hour anti-virus and anti-spam technology to help protect its customers during those first critical hours following a virus release or spam blast when filters don’t yet know to scan for the new outbreaks. Full story ... May 23, 2006 United Press International Latest weapons in spam battle are images "One component of the spam always stays the same: It is sent en masse...Even if there are changes in the message, [Commtouch] can identify it as part of the same outbreak." Full story ... May 23, 2006 M&C Tech Latest weapons in spam battle are images "Commtouch`s answer [to image-based spam], developed after analyzing billions of junk e-mail messages at 'detection centers' around the world, is a patented recurrent-pattern detection program." Full story ... May 23, 2006 Trading Markets Live Commtouch Enters Strategic Alliance With F-Secure To Enhance F-Secure's Threat Protection Product Line - Quick Facts The combined solution would provide F-Secure's customers with immediate protection against virus outbreaks, and will improve productivity and save IT costs by reducing spam. Full story ... May 23, 2006 PhysOrg Latest weapons in spam battle are images Commtouch announced last week it had won a key battle: The company can now identify and block image-based spam. Full story ... April 27, 2006 CIO Today Why No One Can Beat Spam Although better technological controls have provided some measure of relief, spam still is responsible for about 70 percent of mail to consumers, according to the security firm Commtouch. For businesses, who tend to have better protections in place, the statistic is better, but not by much: almost half of the entire e-mail traffic into a company is spam, spam, spam. Full story ... April 10, 2006 IT-Observer 10 Internet threats your users should ignore We're bombarded on an almost daily basis with news of new threats to our computer systems. The year 2006 started with a deluge of new viruses, according to the Commtouch Detection Center's presentation at the RSA Conference in February. And installing a good antivirus program and keeping it up to date isn't enough; other forms of attack--from spyware that infects individual computers to denial of service attacks that bring down whole networks--are on the rise, too. Full story ... April 7, 2006 Tech Republic 10 Internet threats your users should ignore Takeaway: You've got your hands full dealing with real security threats--you don't need your users falling for fake ones. The year 2006 started with a deluge of new viruses, according to the Commtouch Detection Center's presentation at the RSA Conference in February. But along with all the reports of real threats, the Internet spawns numerous hoaxes: messages that warn of threats that aren't real. The originators of these messages are sometimes just trying to be funny, but other times they instruct users to do things to protect against the fake threat that really will damage their data or render their computer unusable. Full story ... April 4, 2006 Newsday.com Wire Service Reports The "average anti-virus" program didn't do a very good job last month of preventing computers and networks from being infected, a company that markets such programs reports. Commtouch Software Ltd. of San Jose, Calif., found that each anti-virus program "completely missed 6.2 viruses." Monitoring more than 2 billion e-mail messages during January from 130 countries, Commtouch said the attacks "succeeded in reaching many of their targets, despite the presence of traditional anti-virus programs." The firm expressed surprise at the speed and volume: "Massive attacks take as little as 5.5 hours to spread in hundreds of millions of e-mails." Full story ... April 3, 2006 PoliticsOnline Israelis Report Election Spam The Israeli anti-spam company COMMTOUCH said that during the month of March, 59 percent of messages reaching the average Israeli's inbox were junk mail, according to a report on the Hebrew news Web site Ynet. Of the spam messages, 36 percent were political, COMMTOUCH said, and the majority of those came from the Labor Party and the Shinui Party, the site said. Full story ... April 3, 2006 The Washington Times Report: Israelis report election spam The Israeli anti-spam company COMMTOUCH said that during the month of March, 59 percent of messages reaching the average Israeli's inbox were junk mail, according to a report on the Hebrew news Web site Ynet. Of the spam messages, 36 percent were political, COMMTOUCH said, and the majority of those came from the Labor Party and the Shinui Party, the site said. Labor ended up winning 20 seats in the 120-seat Knesset on Tuesday, while Shinui, once a significant force in Israeli politics, failed this year to clear the vote threshold required to enter the Knesset at all. A large chunk of the spam -- 56 percent -- was shopping related. Of this portion, a full 30 percent was dedicated to shopping for the upcoming Passover holiday in Israel, the news site said. COMMTOUCH's research results showed that the worldwide average among 130 countries was 46.4 percent spam in the inbox, but some users reported that as much as 71.5 percent of their e-mail was junk, the site said. Though Israelis suffer a particularly high spamming rate, much of the junk content actually comes from the United States, the news site said -- 43.7 percent of it. Another 13.6 percent of the spam comes from China, while Germany, Korea, France and Britain each send between 2 percent and 3 percent of Israelis' junk mail, according to the news site. Full story ... March 30, 2006 Economist.com Israelis report election spam Report: Israelis report election spam (PhysOrg.com) Wed 21:23 GMT Full story ... March 29, 2006 United Press International Report: Israelis report election spam TEL AVIV, Israel, March 29 (UPI) -- Israelis receive a lot of spam e-mail, but in the month leading up to Tuesday's general elections the amount spiked due to political messages. The Israeli anti-spam company COMMTOUCH said that during the month of March, 59 percent of messages reaching the average Israeli's inbox were junk mail, according to a report on the Hebrew news Web site Ynet. Of the spam messages, 36 percent were political, COMMTOUCH said, and the majority of those came from the Labor Party and the Shinui Party, the site said. Labor ended up winning 20 seats in the 120-seat Knesset on Tuesday, while Shinui, once a significant force in Israeli politics, failed this year to clear the vote threshold required to enter the Knesset at all. Full story ... March 29, 2006 Physorg.com Report: Israelis report election spam Israelis receive a lot of spam e-mail, but in the month leading up to Tuesday's general elections the amount spiked due to political messages. The Israeli anti-spam company COMMTOUCH said that during the month of March, 59 percent of messages reaching the average Israeli's inbox were junk mail, according to a report on the Hebrew news Web site Ynet. Of the spam messages, 36 percent were political, COMMTOUCH said, and the majority of those came from the Labor Party and the Shinui Party, the site said. COMMTOUCH's research results showed that the worldwide average among 130 countries was 46.4 percent spam in the inbox, but some users reported that as much as 71.5 percent of their e-mail was junk, the site said. Full story ... March 29, 2006 IsraelNews.net Hi Tech - Israelis report election spam TEL AVIV, Israel, March 29 (UPI) -- Israelis receive a lot of spam e-mail, but in the month leading up to Tuesday's general elections the amount spiked due to political messages. The Israeli anti-spam company COMMTOUCH said that during the month of March, 59 percent of messages reaching the average Israeli's inbox were junk mail, according to a report on the Hebrew news Web site Ynet. Of the spam messages, 36 percent were political, COMMTOUCH said, and the majority of those came from the Labor Party and the Shinui Party, the site said. Full story ... March 28, 2006 CBS News Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand ...Of these nine attacks, four were rated "low intensity," three were rated as "significant," one attack was rated as "medium-high," and another as "massive." Anti-virus engines demonstrate problematic response time: The amount of time it takes for a virus to be distributed varies, though typically the fiercer attacks are also spread more rapidly: 'Low Intensity' attacks took 7 hours to 2 days; 'significant' attacks took 1 hour to 1 day; and 'medium' to 'massive' were swiftly spread in 3 to 5 hours. Full story ... March 28, 2006 Investors.com February Virus and Spam Statistics Commtouch(R) (CTCH), the developer of the ground-breaking RPD(TM) technology for real-time anti-spam and Zero-Hour(TM) virus protection, today announced spam and computer virus statistics for the month of February 2006. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of February. Full story ... March 28, 2006 Morningstar February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand Based on real-time testing data received from AV-Test.org, a reliable independent lab, Commtouch was able to compare detection times of more than 30 leading anti-virus engines against new viruses released in February. Full story ... March 28, 2006 NewsBlaze Signature-Busting Viruses Penetrate Before Anti-Virus Signatures Are Updated Anti-virus engines demonstrate problematic response time The amount of time it takes for a virus to be distributed varies, though typically the fiercer attacks are also spread more rapidly: 'Low Intensity' attacks took 7 hours to 2 days; 'significant' attacks took 1 hour to 1 day; and 'medium' to 'massive' were swiftly spread in 3 to 5 hours. Full story ... March 28, 2006 Red Herring February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand Commtouch, developer of technology for real-time anti-spam and Zero-Hour(TM) virus protection, today announced spam and computer virus statistics for the month of February 2006. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of February. Full story ... March 23, 2006 CNN-Money February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand Nine signature-busting virus attacks "Out of over twenty-five new virus attacks observed in February, nine can be classified as 'signature-busting attacks,'" explains Amir Lev, Commtouch's President and CTO. "These are viruses with a distribution mechanism engineered especially to break in before anti-virus companies manage to create and update their installed products with a new signature." Full story ... March 22, 2006 ITObserver Protection from Emerging Virus Threats ...virus writers have taken to using several new distribution strategies--so-called short-span attacks and serial-variant attacks. Sometimes they use a combination of both. Read this whitepaper from Proofpoint to learn: Why the need for signature-independent outbreak protection is more important than ever; The latest advances in network traffic analysis and recurrent pattern detection; How Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus technology protects enterprises against new viral outbreaks within minutes of their introduction. Full story ... March 22, 2006 Central Europe Software News February Virus and Spam Statistics Signature-Busting Viruses Penetrate Before Anti-Virus Signatures Are Updated; 2 out of 3 Emails Are Spam Nine signature-busting virus attacks "Out of over twenty-five new virus attacks observed in February, nine can be classified as 'signature-busting attacks,'" explains Amir Lev, Commtouch's President and CTO. "These are viruses with a distribution mechanism engineered especially to break in before anti-virus companies manage to create and update their installed products with a new signature." Full story ... March 21, 2006 Storage & Security Journal February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand Signature-Busting Viruses Penetrate Before Anti-Virus Signatures Are Updated 2 out of 3 Emails Are Spam Commtouch today announced spam and computer virus statistics for the month of February 2006. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of February. Full story ... March 21, 2006 MSExchnage.org February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand Commtouch®, the developer of the ground-breaking RPD(TM) technology for real-time anti-spam and Zero-Hour(TM) virus protection, today announced spam and computer virus statistics for the month of February 2006. Full story ... March 21, 2006 Topix.net February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand Commtouch , the developer of the ground-breaking RPD technology for real-time anti-spam and Zero-Hour virus protection, today announced spam and computer virus ... Full story ... March 21, 2006 ABC 15 Signature-Busting Viruses Penetrate Before Anti-Virus Signatures Are Updated "Out of over twenty-five new virus attacks observed in February, nine can be classified as 'signature-busting attacks,'" explains Amir Lev, Commtouch's President and CTO. "These are viruses with a distribution mechanism engineered especially to break in before anti-virus companies manage to create and update their installed products with a new signature." Full story ... March 20, 2006 PCQuote.com February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand The amount of time it takes for a virus to be distributed varies, though typically the fiercer attacks are also spread more rapidly: 'Low Intensity' attacks took 7 hours to 2 days; 'significant' attacks took 1 hour to 1 day; and 'medium' to 'massive' were swiftly spread in 3 to 5 hours. Based on real-time testing data received from AV-Test.org, a reliable independent lab, Commtouch was able to compare detection times of more than 30 leading anti-virus engines against new viruses released in February. Full story ... March 20, 2006 Cnet News.com Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand - Signature-Busting Viruses Penetrate Before Anti-Virus Signatures Are Updated ... One attack, also noted in Commtouch's January report, turned out to be a multi-wave attack that has been ongoing for three months. Its overall intensity is defined as 'medium-high,' bordering on 'massive' (the highest rate). "This malware is continuously evolving," commented Lev. "It keeps changing the way it disguises itself from traditional signature-based and even heuristics-based anti-virus solutions." According to Commtouch and AV-Test.org data, this attack was completely missed by 12 (36%) of the tested anti-virus products. Full story ... March 20, 2006 Bloomberg.com February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand; Signature-Busting Viruses Penetrate Before Anti-Virus Signatures Are Updated Commtouch (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced spam and computer virus statistics for the month of February 2006. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of February. Full story ... March 20, 2006 Quote.Com February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand Nine signature-busting virus attacks "Out of over twenty-five new virus attacks observed in February, nine can be classified as 'signature-busting attacks,'" explains Amir Lev, Commtouch's President and CTO. "These are viruses with a distribution mechanism engineered especially to break in before anti-virus companies manage to create and update their installed products with a new signature." Full story ... March 20, 2006 Excite money & investing February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand Anti-virus engines demonstrate problematic response time The amount of time it takes for a virus to be distributed varies, though typically the fiercer attacks are also spread more rapidly: 'Low Intensity' attacks took 7 hours to 2 days; 'significant' attacks took 1 hour to 1 day; and 'medium' to 'massive' were swiftly spread in 3 to 5 hours. Based on real-time testing data received from AV-Test.org, a reliable independent lab, Commtouch was able to compare detection times of more than 30 leading anti-virus engines against new viruses released in February. Full story ... March 20, 2006 iWon Money & Investing February Virus and Spam Statistics: Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand Signature-Busting Viruses Penetrate Before Anti-Virus Signatures Are Updated; 2 out of 3 Emails Are Spam -- Each of the 9 attacks mentioned above was completely missed/ignored by at least two of the anti-virus engines -- 5 of the new virus attacks were defined as "short span". The average length of a short-span attack was 4.6 hours, and the average response time of all the tested anti-virus products was over 6 hours -- One attack, also noted in Commtouch's January report, turned out to be a multi-wave attack that has been ongoing for three months. Full story ... March 20, 2006 MyWay Swift Virus Attacks Continue to Gain the Upper Hand - Signature-Busting Viruses Penetrate Before Anti-Virus Signatures Are Updated - 2 out of 3 Emails Are Spam - Nine signature-busting virus attacks - Anti-virus engines demonstrate problematic response time Full story ... March 17, 2006 ClickZ Network The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, February 2006 Nine signature-busting attacks were observed out of the 25 new viruses detected by Commtouch in February. Signature-busting attacks are those with a distribution mechanism engineered to break in before anti-virus companies recognize, create a patch and update computers running anti-virus software. The nine threats ranged in intensity, four were rated "low intensity;" three registered "significant;" one reached "medium-high" threat status and another was classified as "massive" by the security firm. Full story ... Feb. 25, 2006 Reuters - Key Developments Sendmail Partners With Commtouch Software to Combat Spam and Viruses at Zero-Hour Sendmail Strengthens Mailstream Manager and Sentrion Appliance with Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology Full story ... Feb. 24, 2006 Always-On Network January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January. The numbers are indeed concerning: 19 new email-born significant virus attacks, of which a troubling 8 (42%) were graded "low intensity", 7 (37%) "Medium Intensity" and 4 (21%) were massive attacks -- a rare phenomenon for a single month. Full story ... Feb. 24, 2006 ABC News Watchguard Firebox X8000 The Firebox X8000 is a multitalented firewall that offers remote connectivity and centralized management of distributed networks. With its latest firmware, Fireware Pro version 8.2, WatchGuard introduced a new spam-blocking service in partnership with Commtouch (www.commtouch.com). The new Fireware Pro antispam component doesn't require signatures to detect junk e-mail. Commtouch's "Zero-Hour" service scans Internet traffic on an ongoing basis and analyzes the sources of malicious outbreaks. In turn, the Firebox queries the service about each incoming message and discards any that have been associated with a spam outbreak, thus rejecting malicious traffic before a signature would be available. Full story ... Feb. 23, 2006 LugoD January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang The numbers are indeed concerning: 19 new email-born significant virus attacks, of which [...] 4 (21%) were massive attacks - a rare phenomenon for a single month. ... Commtouch was able to compare detection times of 21 leading AV engines against 19 new viruses in January. The results: [1] On average, each AV completely missed 6.2 viruses (the attack was [already] completed, and a signature was [still not] available). [2] The average response time to new viruses among all AV engines was 8.12 hours. "The data should be of great concern to AV vendors and IT managers alike. [...] An eight hour response spells a simple truth - a traditional AV solution does not stand a chance against massive attacks that end before a signature is even released." Full story ... Feb. 23, 2006 PC Magazine Watchguard Firebox X8000 - Product Review The WatchGuard Firebox X8000 is the flagship firewall in WatchGuard's Firebox X Peak line of UTM (Unified Threat Management) appliances. ...With its latest firmware, Fireware Pro version 8.2, WatchGuard introduced a new spam-blocking service in partnership with Commtouch (www.commtouch.com). The new Fireware Pro antispam component doesn't require signatures to detect junk e-mail. Commtouch's "Zero-Hour" service scans Internet traffic on an ongoing basis and analyzes the sources of malicious outbreaks. In turn, the Firebox queries the service about each incoming message and discards any that have been associated with a spam outbreak, thus rejecting malicious traffic before a signature would be available. Full story ... Feb. 22, 2006 Wired News Mac Attack a Load of Crap Last month, there were four "massive" virus attacks on Windows, according to Commtouch, an antispam and antivirus vendor. Indeed, viruses are now so aggressive, they routinely outpace attempts by antivirus companies to distribute protective signatures. This state of affairs is now so common, I hadn't noticed -- and I work for a technology news site. "Virulent computer virus infects millions worldwide, other non-news at 11." Full story ... Feb. 22, 2006 Reseller News Large scale successes for viruses in January - Vendors fail to stop them in time An unusual number of virus attacks succeeded on a large scale in January, according to figures released last week, with an increasing number of viruses managing to wreak havoc before anti-virus vendors could respond. Israel-based Commtouch Software, which makes spam and virus protection technology, says there were four "massive attacks" in January, out of 19 new, significant e-mail-borne virus attacks. Eight of these were graded "low intensity" and seven were "medium intensity", the company says. Full story ... Feb. 22, 2006 Darknet Jan 2006 Virus and Spam Statistics January at a glance: Vicious and Varied The numbers are indeed concerning: 19 new email-born significant virus attacks, of which a troubling 8 (42%) were graded “low intensity”, 7 (37%) “Medium Intensity” and 4 (21%) were massive attacks – a rare phenomenon for a single month. The biggest virus attacks are the quickest – fast-moving solutions required One of the factors measured by Commtouch is the speed of distribution. We consider attacks that peak within eight hours to have “short spans”, since it takes an average of 8-10 hours for a traditional anti-virus vendor to release an updated signature blocking a new virus. Full story ... Feb. 21, 2006 Black Enterprise Commtouch Provides Fourth Quarter and Year End 2005 Results "2005 was a very positive year for the company from a technological, marketing and sales standpoint," stated Gideon Mantel, CEO of Commtouch. "We were very encouraged to see that the company achieved positive cash flow from operations during the fourth quarter." Full story ... Feb. 21, 2006 TechWorld Large scale successes for viruses in January An unusual number of virus attacks succeeded on a large scale in January, according to figures released last week, with an increasing number of viruses managing to wreak havoc before anti-virus vendors could respond. Israel-based Commtouch, which makes spam and virus protection technology, said there were four "massive attacks" in January, out of 19 new, significant e-mail-borne virus attacks. Eight of these were graded "low intensity" and seven were "medium intensity", the company said. Speed has always been key to a virus's success, and more attacks are managing to slide in under anti-virus companies' radar, with 40 percent of attacks peaking within eight hours. Speed corresponded to the scale of the attack: on average low-intensity attacks peaked in 27 hours, medium-intensity attacks took 17 hours and the most damaging attacks took as little as 5.5 hours to spread hundreds of millions of emails, according to Commtouch. Full story ... , Download file Feb. 21, 2006 PC Advisor Virus-writers enjoy successful January - Four massive attacks An unusual number of virus attacks succeeded on a large scale in January, many of them wreaking havoc before antivirus vendors could respond, according to figures released last week. Israel-based Commtouch Software, which makes spam and virus protection technology, said there were four "massive attacks" in January, out of 19 significant new email-borne attacks. Eight of the remainder were graded "low intensity" and seven were "medium intensity", the company said. One outbreak consisted of seven variants, the first launching around Christmas Day, with subsequent variants growing into a massive outbreak late in January. Full story ... Feb. 20, 2006 Email Battles Spammers have a happy new year If January's any indication, one antispam vendor thinks 2006 will be a banner year for spam. According to CommTouch, the month had "four massive virus attacks," which, they said, is "a rare phenomenon for a single month". Topics were the usual: pharmaceuticals, gifts, enhancers, diets, re-fi, software, porn, local dating, etc. And the spammers still love to use Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN and GMail. Full story ... Feb. 20, 2006 TechRepublic January 2006 Virus and Spam Statistics Commtouch reports the January 2006's virus and spam statistics. Its summary said there were four massive virus attacks (including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants) and the most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average antivirus (AV) solution could even release a signature. Full story ... Feb. 20, 2006 ZD Net Top spamming domains: hotmail.com, yahoo.com, msn.com Posted by ZDNet Research @ 2:10 pm While spammers make every effort to use diverse domains, in a sample of 256 mln messages, CommTouch found that some domains are being used significantly more than others. Leading the list are hotmail.com (4.7 mln), yahoo.com (4.2 mln), msn.com (2.1 mln), cisco.com (1.9 mln) and gmail.com (1.5 mln). Full story ... Feb. 20, 2006 ZD Net 52.46% of Jan 2006 spam was drug-related 52.46% of spam sent in January 2006 was related to pharmaceutical products, CommTouch says. Distant second was gifts with 14.08% (this category includes such all time spam favorites as fake Rolex watches), followed by enhancers and diets with 13.38%, finance with 7.57% (refinancing and mortgage offers), software with 6.34% (mostly unbelievable deals at OEM prices), porn & dating with 5.28% and phishing fraud with 0.88%. Full story ... Feb. 20, 2006 ZD Net 43.18% of spam sent in Jan 2006 originated in the US The Commtouch Detection Center monitors spam distribution patterns on a global level. January 2006 spam statistics show that 43.18% of global spam is sent from US-based sources (down from approximately 50%). China is also a significant 'launching pad' for 12.89% of the spam. Korean and German sources distribute about 4% of global spam, and the rest of spam originates from around the globe. Full story ... Feb. 20, 2006 SC Magazine January marred by 'vicious and varied' virus attacks Internet users were subjected to "vicious and varied" virus attacks in January, including a multi-wave attack of seven viral mutants and several devastating zero day assaults, a newly published threat monitoring report has revealed. The study from IT security firm Commtouch is based on information continuously gathered by the firm, which analyzed more than two billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January. It reports that attacks in January were vicious and varied, 19 new email-born significant virus attacks, of which a troubling eight (42 per cent) were graded "low intensity", seven (37 per cent) "medium intensity" and four (21 per cent) were massive attacks. The extent of this viral rampage was described by the report as "a rare phenomenon for a single month". Full story ... , Download file Feb. 20, 2006 Digital-Lifestyle January A Bumper Month For Spam, Mobile Spam Increases So, it's Monday morning, you've sat down at your desk, powered up your PC and then slunk lower and lower in your chair as a fresh tide of spam rolls into your inbox. And if you're thinking that January was a pretty bad month for spam, you'd be right. Commtouch's virus and spam statistics for January 2006 show that the year started out with a bang, with four massive virus attacks unleashed during the month including an evil sounding "multi-wave attack of 7 variants." The company noted that the most aggressive attacks struck before the average anti-virus vendor could even release a signature "The number of massive attacks grew in January," points out Amir Lev, President and CTO. "In large part due to the speed of distribution, they succeeded in reaching many of their targets despite the presence of traditional anti-virus programs." Looking through the depressing stats for January reveals 19 new email-born significant virus attacks, of which eight (42%) were categorised as "low intensity", seven (37%) "Medium Intensity" and four (21%) rated as massive attacks - a rare phenomenon for a single month. Full story ... , Download file Feb. 19, 2006 Spam.Abuse.Net January 2006 Virus and Spam Statistics Commtouch reports the January 2006's virus and spam statistics. Its summary said there were four massive virus attacks (including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants) and the most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average antivirus (AV) solution could even release a signature. Full story ... Feb. 19, 2006 Netscae Gadgets & Tech Sendmail Partners With Commtouch Sendmail Partners With Commtouch to Combat Spam and Viruses at Zero-Hour; Sendmail Strengthens Mailstream Manager and Sentrion Appliance With Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology "With the worldwide growth of spam, and increasingly threatening virus outbreaks, we need the most advanced technology to defend our customers' email infrastructures," said Richard Kreysar, CEO, Sendmail, Inc. Full story ... Feb. 19, 2006 Tech News Spam and Virus Statistics from Commtouch® • Four massive virus attacks in January, including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants • The most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average AV solution could even release a signature The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January. The Commtouch Detection Center monitors spam distribution patterns on a global level. January spam statistics show that 43.18% of global spam is sent from US-based sources (down from approximately 50%). China is also a significant 'launching pad' for 12.89% of the spam. Korean and German sources distribute about 4% of global spam, and the rest of spam originates from around the globe. Full story ... Feb. 19, 2006 DV Hardware Virus and spam - January 2006 statistics Commtouch, the developer of the RPD technology for real time anti-spam and Zero-Hour virus protection, today announced spam and computer virus statistics for the month of January 2006. “The number of massive attacks grew in January,” points out Amir Lev, President and CTO. “In large part due to the speed of distribution, they succeeded in reaching many of their targets despite the presence of traditional anti-virus programs.” Full story ... Feb. 19, 2006 SlashDot January 2006 Virus and Spam Statistics Commtouch reports the January 2006's virus and spam statistics. Its summary said there were four massive virus attacks (including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants) and the most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average antivirus (AV) solution could even release a signature. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January 2006... Full story ... Feb. 19, 2006 AQFL January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang... Commtouch reports the January 2006's virus and spam statistics. Its summary said there were four massive virus attacks (including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants) and the most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average antivirus (AV) solution could even release a signature. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January 2006... Full story ... Feb. 19, 2006 TechRepublic Spam and Virus Statistics from Commtouch - Four massive virus attacks in January, including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants - The most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average AV solution could even release a signature The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January. Full story ... Feb. 19, 2006 Madshrimpsnews January 2006 Virus and Spam Statistics Commtouch reports the January 2006's virus and spam statistics. Its summary said there were four massive virus attacks (including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants) and the most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average antivirus (AV) solution could even release a signature. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January 2006. (Src: Slashdot.org) Full story ... Feb. 19, 2006 Linkselection.be January 2006 Virus and Spam Statistics Commtouch reports the January 2006's virus and spam statistics. Its summary said there were four massive virus attacks (including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants) and the most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average antivirus (AV) solution could even release a signature. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January 2006... Full story ... Feb. 18, 2006 iCause Malaysia January 2006 Virus and Spam Statistics Commtouch reports the January 2006s virus and spam statistics. Its summary said there were four massive virus attacks (including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants) and the most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average antivirus (AV) solution could even release a signature. Feb. 18, 2006 What's Up? Internet News Virus and spam statistics According to Commtouch, January 2006 was a shocker in relation to spam and viruses, based on their analysis of over 2 billion email messages. Key findings - 19 new significant email virus attacks, with four considered to be "massive" attacks - The average response time by anti-virus companies to release an update was just over 8 hours ...... Full story ... Feb. 18, 2006 Taming The Beast Virus and spam statistics According to Commtouch, January 2006 was a shocker in relation to spam and viruses, based on their analysis of over 2 billion email messages.Key findings: - 19 new significant email virus attacks, with four considered to be “massive” attacks - The average response time by anti-virus companies to release an update was just over 8 hours - Over 43% of spam sent originates from USA systems, down from 50% * - Nearly 13% of spam originates in China - Leading domains used for spamming are hotmail.com, yahoo.com, msn.com, cisco.com and gmail Full story ... Feb. 17, 2006 TechRepublic 52.46% of Jan 2006 spam was drug-related 52.46% of spam sent in January 2006 was related to pharmaceutical products, CommTouch says. Distant second was gifts with 14.08% (this category includes such all time spam favorites as fake Rolex watches), followed by enhancers and diets with 13.38%, finance with 7.57% (refinancing and mortgage offers), software with 6.34% (mostly unbelievable deals at OEM prices), [...] Full story ... Feb. 17, 2006 TechRepublic 43.18% of spam sent in Jan 2006 originated in the US The Commtouch Detection Center monitors spam distribution patterns on a global level. January 2006 spam statistics show that 43.18% of global spam is sent from US-based sources (down from approximately 50%). China is also a significant 'launching pad' for 12.89% of the spam. Korean and German sources distribute about 4% of global spam, and the [...] Full story ... Feb. 16, 2006 B-to-B Commtouch: Spam sent primarily from U.S. Commtouch, a provider of anti-spam and virus protection technology, today announced its spam and computer virus statistics for the month of January. According to the company, 43.18% of global spam is sent from U.S.-based sources. China is also a significant spam “launching pad,” accounting for 12.89% of spam. Korea and Germany each distribute about 4% of global spam, the company said. Commtouch also reported that some domains are used significantly more than others to send spam. In a sample of 256 million spam messages, 4.7 million came from hotmail.com; 4.2 million from yahoo.com; 2.1 million from msn.com, 1.9 million from cisco.com; and 1.5 million from gmail.com. Commtouch’s data are based on information gathered by its Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from more than 130 countries during the month of January. Full story ... Feb. 16, 2006 The Hosting News Spam and Computer Virus Statistics Released for January 2006 Anti-spam and virus protection company, Commtouch, has announced spam and computer virus statistics for the month of January 2006. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center. Amir Lev, President and CTO commented on the news, ''The number of massive attacks grew in January. In large part due to the speed of distribution, they succeeded in reaching many of their targets despite the presence of traditional anti-virus programs.''. The numbers are indeed concerning: 19 new email-born significant virus attacks, of which a troubling 8 (42%) were graded "low intensity", 7 (37%) "Medium Intensity" and 4 (21%) were massive attacks - a rare phenomenon for a single month. The biggest virus attacks are the quickest, and fast-moving solutions are required. One of the factors measured by Commtouch is the speed of distribution. We consider attacks that peak within eight hours to have "short spans," since it takes an average of 8-10 hours for a traditional anti-virus vendor to release an updated signature blocking a new virus. Computer virus statistics from the Commtouch Detection Center indicate that 40% of attacks during January met this profile. Also, there is a clear connection between the attack's speed and its intensity - the faster attacks are the biggest ones: while the average distribution time of low intensity attacks is a "leisurely" 27 hours and medium-intensity attacks can take 17 hours, massive attacks take as little as 5.5 hours to spread in hundreds of millions of emails. Full story ... Feb. 16, 2006 Mnet January Virus and Spam Statistics Anti-virus engine statistics -- is your AV up for the challenge? Based in part on a reliable third party lab test, Commtouch was able to compare detection times of 21 leading AV engines against 19 new viruses in January. The results: -- On average, each AV completely missed 6.2 viruses (the attack was completed, and a signature was not yet available). -- The average response time to new viruses among all AV engines was 8.12 hours. "The data should be of great concern to AV vendors and IT managers alike," said Lev. "An eight hour response spells a simple truth -- a traditional AV solution does not stand a chance against massive attacks that end before a signature is even released." Full story ... Feb. 16, 2006 Lewis Wire Sendmail partners with Commtouch to combat spam and viruses at Zero-Hour Sendmail Strengthens Mailstream Manager and Sentrion Appliance with Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology Sendmail Inc. and Commtouch, two leaders in email infrastructure and security technology, have announced the signing of a new OEM licensing agreement. Through this partnership, Sendmail will offer its customers cutting edge spam filtering and Zero-Hour virus protection services, based on Commtouch’s Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) technology. Full story ... Feb. 16, 2006 Rocket Info Sendmail Partners With Commtouch to Combat Spam and Viruses at Zero-Hour Sendmail Strengthens Mailstream Manager and Sentrion Appliance with Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 Wave Report ***January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang Commtouch has announced spam and computer virus statistics for the month of January 2006. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January. Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 Spam Daily News Faster attacks are the biggest ones Faster attacks take as little as 5.5 hours to spread in hundreds of millions of emails. Traditional antivirus engines do not stand a chance against massive attacks that end before a signature is even released. Commtouch today announced spam and computer virus statistics for the month of January 2006. One of the factors measured by Commtouch is the speed of distribution. The company considers attacks that peak within eight hours to have "short spans," since it takes an average of 8-10 hours for a traditional antivirus vendor to release an updated signature blocking a new virus. Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 The Call - National News Sendmail Partners With Commtouch To Combat Spam And Viruses At Zero-Hour Sendmail Strengthens Mailstream Manager and Sentrion Appliance with Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology "With the worldwide growth of spam, and increasingly threatening virus outbreaks, we need the most advanced technology to defend our customers' email infrastructures,” said Richard Kreysar, CEO, Sendmail, Inc. “An especially concerning trend is the growing speed of distribution. The most dangerous viruses are distributed before most anti-virus products have a chance to update their signatures. Commtouch's innovative, real-time detection approach to email classification, combined with our Mailstream Manager and Sentrion appliance adaptive policy framework, provides unmatched protection from spam, phishing, viruses, spyware and other malware." Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 Spam.Abuse.Net Sendmail Partners With Commtouch to Combat Spam and Viruses at ... Sendmail Partners With Commtouch to Combat Spam and Viruses at Zero-Hour; Sendmail Strengthens Sendmail Strengthens Mailstream Manager and Sentrion Appliance With Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 Topix.net January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang Commtouch Software Ltd. : -- Four massive virus attacks in January, including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants -- The most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average ... Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 Electronics Express January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang -- Four massive virus attacks in January, including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants -- The most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average AV solution could even release a signature "The number of massive attacks grew in January," points out Amir Lev, President and CTO. "In large part due to the speed of distribution, they succeeded in reaching many of their targets despite the presence of traditional anti-virus programs." Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 Indymedia January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang January at a glance: Vicious and Varied The numbers are indeed concerning: 19 new email-born significant virus attacks, of which a troubling 8 (42%) were graded "low intensity", 7 (37%) "Medium Intensity" and 4 (21%) were massive attacks – a rare phenomenon for a single month. One outbreak of specific interest, consisting of 7 variants, illustrates how viruses are growing in sophistication: the first variant was launched around December 25th as a low intensity virus, however with subsequently released variants the attack's intensity grew into a massive outbreak towards the end of the month. Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 DigitalGrabber January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang The biggest virus attacks are the quickest -- fast-moving solutions required One of the factors measured by Commtouch is the speed of distribution. We consider attacks that peak within eight hours to have "short spans," since it takes an average of 8-10 hours for a traditional anti-virus vendor to release an updated signature blocking a new virus. Computer virus statistics from the Commtouch Detection Center indicate that 40% of attacks during January met this profile. Also, there is a clear connection between the attack's speed and its intensity -- the faster attacks are the biggest ones: while the average distribution time of low intensity attacks is a "leisurely" 27 hours and medium-intensity attacks can take 17 hours, massive attacks take as little as 5.5 hours to spread in hundreds of millions of emails. "The conclusion is clear," adds Lev. "Without a reliable solution for early hour protection that complements the old fashion anti-virus solutions, users are unprotected from the most massive attacks." Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 MSExchange.org January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang Commtouch Software Ltd. : Four massive virus attacks in January, including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants The most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average AV solution could even release a signature... Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 AskLeo! January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang Commtouch Software Ltd. : Four massive virus attacks in January, including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants; The most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average AV solution could even release a signature Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 Intoto Intoto to Debut Next-Generation Unified Threat Management (UTM) Technologies at RSA Conference 2006 Solutions based on Intoto’s iGateway Software and Key Partner Technologies Deliver Enterprise-class Performance and Functionality “Integrating our anti-spam and Zero-Hour technologies with Intoto’s software enable manufacturers to take advantage of advanced messaging security in their next generation UTM products,” said Avner Amram, executive vice president at Commtouch. Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 United Press International Commtouch records four major Jan. viruses Commtouch Software reported Wednesday that January saw four major virus attacks sweep through the Internet. The growth in available speeds on the Net helped spread the attacks, one of which included seven variants of a single infection, the security-software company said. "The number of massive attacks grew in January," said company President Amir Lev. "In large part due to the speed of distribution, they succeeded in reaching many of their targets despite the presence of traditional anti-virus programs." Commtouch's review of January activity found 19 new e-mail viruses making the rounds, most of which were classified as "low intensity," although four were rated as "massive attack." Lev said massive attacks was relatively rare, and one of them morphed from a low-intensity attack into a fast-moving massive event as subsequently released variants kept the attack rolling. Common spam traffic continued to flow across cyberspace as well, with the majority of the unwanted e-mails coming out of the United States. Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 PHYSORG.com Commtouch records four major Jan. viruses "The number of massive attacks grew in January," said company President Amir Lev. "In large part due to the speed of distribution, they succeeded in reaching many of their targets despite the presence of traditional anti-virus programs." Commtouch's review of January activity found 19 new e-mail viruses making the rounds, most of which were classified as "low intensity," although four were rated as "massive attack." Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 MarketWatch Virus software faulted A company which markets tools to prevent computers and networks from being infected by viruses reported the "average anti-virus" program wasn't doing very well last month. "Each AV completely missed 6.2 viruses," said Commtouch Software Ltd. Of San Jose, Calif. Monitoring more than 2 billion e-mail messages during January from 130 countries, Commtouch said there was a "massive" number of attacks and, "They succeeded in reaching many of their targets despite the presence of traditional anti-virus programs." The firm expressed surprise at the speed and volume. "Massive attacks take as little as 5.5 hours to spread in hundreds of millions of e-mails." Commtouch said legitimate Web domains are used for distribution of millions of spam emails. Domains including hotmail.com and yahoo.com were among the most popular. "Spammers have deduced that to avoid being blocked by the simplest mail server rules, they need to use (such) a valid domain," the firm said in a statement. Commtouch reported 43% of spam is sent from US-based sources; China has become a "significant" launching pad for almost 13%. Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 ClickZ The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, January 2006 Four major virus attacks were recognized in January by software firm Commtouch. The firm identified 19 new e-mail-borne significant virus attacks. Eight (42 percent) were classified as low intensity; seven (37 percent) as medium; and four (21 percent) as high. Seven variants came from just one outbreak, which demonstrates a growth in sophistication. Spam detected in January primarily originated in the U.S. (43.18 percent); China (12.89 percent); and Korea and Germany (four percent, respectively). Spammers used prominent e-mail domains such as Hotmail.com(4.7 million); yahoo.com (4.2 million); MSN.com (2.1 million); Cisco.com (1.9 million); and Gmail.com (1.5 million). Use of established domains is one method spammers use to avoid being blocked by mail server rules. Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 WebWire January Virus and Spam Statistics: 2006 Starts with a Bang • Four massive virus attacks in January, including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants • The most aggressive attacks whizzed through before the average AV solution could even release a signature The numbers are indeed concerning: 19 new email-born significant virus attacks, of which a troubling 8 (42%) were graded "low intensity", 7 (37%) "Medium Intensity" and 4 (21%) were massive attacks – a rare phenomenon for a single month. One outbreak of specific interest, consisting of 7 variants, illustrates how viruses are growing in sophistication: the first variant was launched around December 25th as a low intensity virus, however with subsequently released variants the attack’s intensity grew into a massive outbreak towards the end of the month. Full story ... Feb. 15, 2006 Investors.com Virus software faulted A company which markets tools to prevent computers and networks from being infected by viruses reported the "average anti-virus" program wasn't doing very well last month. "Each AV completely missed 6.2 viruses," said Commtouch Software Ltd. Of San Jose, Calif. Monitoring more than 2 billion e-mail messages during January from 130 countries, Commtouch said there was a "massive" number of attacks and, "They succeeded in reaching many of their targets despite the presence of traditional anti-virus programs." The firm expressed surprise at the speed and volume. "Massive attacks take as little as 5.5 hours to spread in hundreds of millions of e-mails." Full story ... Feb. 14, 2006 Most Popular Stories - Yahoo! Finance Intoto Integrates Commtouch Technologies Intoto Integrates Commtouch High Performance Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies Into iGateway Software Full story ... Feb. 14, 2006 The Jerusalem Post Virus protection developer Commtouch has signed a licensing agreement with Intoto Virus protection developer Commtouch has signed a licensing agreement with Intoto, a provider of network-centric, secure gateway software for networking and communications original equipment manufacturers. Commtouch's anti-spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection technologies will be offered as an integrated module for Intoto's iGateway EX and RGS software platforms. Full story ... Feb. 14, 2006 INS News Sendmail Partners With Commtouch to Combat Spam and Viruses at Zero-Hour; Sendmail Strengthens Sendmail Strengthens Mailstream Manager and Sentrion Appliance With Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology Richard Kreysar, CEO, Sendmail: "Commtouch's innovative, real-time detection approach to email classification, combined with our Mailstream Manager and Sentrion appliance adaptive policy framework, provides unmatched protection from spam, phishing, viruses, spyware and other malware." Full story ... Feb. 14, 2006 My Way Finance Sendmail Partners With Commtouch To Combat Spam And Viruses At Zero-Hour Sendmail Inc. and Commtouch (NASDAQ: CTCH), two leaders in email infrastructure and security technology, announced today the signing of a new OEM licensing agreement. Through this partnership, Sendmail will offer its customers cutting edge spam filtering and Zero-Hour™ virus protection services, based on Commtouch’s Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) technology. Full story ... Feb. 14, 2006 The Crystal Cave Intoto Integrates Commtouch High Performance Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies into iGateway Software Commtouch’s unique email security technology adds ideal protection for residential gateways and enterprise security appliances Full story ... Feb. 14, 2006 MSExchange.org Intoto Integrates Commtouch High Performance Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies Into iGateway Intoto’s selection of Commtouch is seen as another affirmation of the suitability of Commtouch’s RPD technology for the most advanced network security equipment. Commtouch’s email security solution will now be available on small office-home office (SOHO) devices, residential gateways, and security appliances. Full story ... Feb. 13, 2006 Poenix ville any time Sendmail Partners With Commtouch to Combat Spam and Viruses at Zero-Hour; Sendmail Strengthens Mailstream Manager and Sentrion Appliance With Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology Feb. 13, 2006 Silicon Investor Intoto Integrates Commtouch High Performance Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies Into iGateway Software Intoto's selection of Commtouch is seen as another affirmation of the suitability of Commtouch's RPD technology for the most advanced network security equipment. Commtouch's email security solution will now be available on small office-home office (SOHO) devices, residential gateways, and security appliances. Full story ... Feb. 13, 2006 MSExchange.org Intoto Integrates Commtouch High Performance Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies Into iGateway Commtouch's Unique Email Security Technology Adds Ideal Protection for Residential Gateways and Enterprise Security Appliances Full story ... Feb. 13, 2006 AskLeo! Intoto Integrates Commtouch High Performance Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies Into iGateway Under the terms of the agreement, Commtouch’s proven anti-spam and Zero-Hour™ Virus Protection technologies will be offered as an integrated module for Intoto’s iGateway EX and RGS software platforms. The combined solution allows networking security vendors to add gateway-based anti-spam capabilities to their unified threat management (UTM) and standard security appliances. Full story ... Feb. 13, 2006 RTT News Commtouch Signs Licensing Deal With Intoto To Offer Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies For IGateway EX, RGS Software Platforms [CTCH] Full story ... Feb. 13, 2006 Best Syndication Intoto Integrates Commtouch Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Commtouch's Unique Email Security Technology Adds Ideal Protection for Residential Gateways and Enterprise Security Appliances Commtouch has signed a licensing agreement with Intoto, a leading provider of network-centric secure gateway software for networking and communications original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Full story ... Feb. 13, 2006 IT Week How to take spam off the menu Security firm Commtouch estimates that spam accounts for 67 percent of global email traffic. Furthermore, many users disable HTML rendering and image download, to defend against viruses and to avoid signalling to spammers that messages have been read. This is the context into which AOL and Yahoo have announced that they will introduce paid-for emails – re-igniting the old debate about whether internet postage stamps are the best way to defeat spam. Full story ... Feb. 13, 2006 Computing How to take spam off the menu Security firm Commtouch estimates that spam accounts for 67 percent of global email traffic. Furthermore, many users disable HTML rendering and image download, to defend against viruses and to avoid signalling to spammers that messages have been read. This is the context into which AOL and Yahoo have announced that they will introduce paid-for emails – re-igniting the old debate about whether internet postage stamps are the best way to defeat spam. Full story ... Feb. 13, 2006 VNUnet.com How to take spam off the menu ...Security firm Commtouch estimates that spam accounts for 67 percent of global email traffic. Full story ... Jan. 16, 2006 PJM news T-Online to Offer Email Security Services Based on an Integrated Solution from VirusBuster and Commtouch T-Online, a Subsidiary of Magyar Telekom with over 2.7 Million Subscribers, Will Enhance Its Messaging Services with Commtouch Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies "T-Online's choice is a very significant one. It indicates that integrating Commtouch technology into our product offerings was a wise decision, enhancing our products and boosting our business expansion. We are very pleased with our ongoing collaboration with Commtouch, and trust that Commtouch's front-running technology will continue to fuel VirusBuster's growth," said Peter Agocs, Development Director at VirusBuster. Full story ... Jan. 16, 2006 AVTC - AntiVirus Technical Coop T-Online to Offer Email Security Services Based on an Integrated Solution from VirusBuster and Commtouch T-Online to Offer Email Security Services Based on an Integrated Solution from VirusBuster and Commtouch - T-Online, a Subsidiary of Magyar Telekom with over 2.7 Million Subscribers, Will Enhance Its Messaging Services with Commtouch Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies Full story ... Jan. 16, 2006 ee Product Center T-Online to Offer Email Security Services Based on an Integrated Solution from VirusBuster and Commtouch T-Online, a Subsidiary of Magyar Telekom with over 2.7 Million Subscribers, Will Enhance Its Messaging Services with Commtouch Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies "The fact that an ISP with almost three million subscribers is offering services relying on Commtouch technology is added proof of the virtually unlimited scalability of Commtouch solutions," said Ronni Zehavi, Vice President of International Business Development at Commtouch. "T-Online's decision comes at the heels of several licensing agreements between Commtouch and other important vendors, reinforcing that our technology is a perfect match for carriers, ISPs and managed security service providers." Full story ... Jan. 16, 2006 EEXPRESS T-Online to Offer Email Security Services Based on an Integrated Solution from VirusBuster and Commtouch Commtouch announced today that its anti-spam and Zero-Hour(TM) virus protection technologies, integrated into VirustBuster products, will protect T-Online's 2.7 million mailboxes throughout Hungary. This will be possible thanks to a recent agreement between VirusBuster and T-Online, which is a subsidiary of Magyar Telekom, the biggest telecommunications provider in Hungary and the largest ISP in the country. Full story ... Jan. 16, 2006 FinanzNachrichten.de T-Online to Offer Email Security Services Based on Commtouch "The fact that an ISP with almost three million subscribers is offering services relying on Commtouch technology is added proof of the virtually unlimited scalability of Commtouch solutions," said Ronni Zehavi, Vice President of International Business Development at Commtouch. "T-Online's decision comes at the heels of several licensing agreements between Commtouch and other important vendors, reinforcing that our technology is a perfect match for carriers, ISPs and managed security service providers." Full story ... Jan. 16, 2006 Webmaster Guild T-Online to Offer Email Security Services Based on an Integrated Solution from VirusBuster and Commtouch (FinanzNachrichten) Commtouch(R) (NASDAQ:CTCH), the developer of ground-breaking Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD)(TM) technology for real-time anti-spam protection, announced today that its anti-spam and Zero-Hour(TM) virus protection technologies, integrated into VirustBuster products, will protect T-Online's 2.7 million mailboxes throughout Hungary. Full story ... Jan. 16, 2006 Spam News T-Online to Offer Email Security Services Based on an Integrated Solution from VirusBuster and Commtouch T-Online, a Subsidiary of Magyar Telekom with over 2.7 Million Subscribers, Will Enhance Its Messaging Services with Commtouch Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technologies Full story ... Jan. 16, 2006 Anti-Virus Online - crit.org T-Online to Offer Email Security Services Based on an Integrated Solution from VirusBuster and Commtouch (FinanzNachrichten) Commtouch(NASDAQ:CTCH), the developer of ground-breaking Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD)(TM) technology for real-time anti-spam protection, announced today that its anti-spam and Zero-Hour(TM) virus protection technologies, integrated into VirustBuster products, will protect T-Online's 2.7 million mailboxes throughout Hungary. Full story ... Jan. 12, 2006 The Norway Post SPAM costs billions Norwegian employees will in 2006 spend altogether 2.6 million workdays on deleting spam or junkmail, according to estimates made by Commtouch. The cost - nearly NOK 3 billion. For the year 2005 Commtouch analysts have registered an increase in spam of up to 40 per cent. Towards the end of 2005 there was a marked increase in spam advertising medical supplies, but before Christmas spam concentrated on gift advertising. Experts point out that there are now tools available which will stop up to 98 per cent of the unwanted junkmail heading for your PC. Full story ... Jan. 9, 2006 TechRepublic Pick an anti-virus solution that will grow with your network According to the December 2005 report of Commtouch (developer of Zero-Hour Virus Protection), data collected from over 130 countries showed that about 40 new viruses or variants appear during the preceding month. Viruses (along with their cousins, worms and Trojans) present a major security threat to almost all computers. Because most of today's PCs connect to the Internet, whether via a dialup account on a home machine or through a T-3 connection on a corporate LAN, a new infection can spread quickly through a local network or around the world. Most computer users and IT administrators have learned -- many of them the hard way -- that some sort of antivirus protection is essential. But the AV solutions that work for a home or small business user may not easily scale to meet the needs of an enterprise environment. Let's take a look at how you can choose the right antivirus solution for your company network, and one that will grow with you as your network grows. Full story ...

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