Dear Valued Partner or Friend,
After the December lull, welcome to one of the
busiest quarters, kicking off 2012 with
important events around the world. Commtouch
representatives will be looking to meet with you and your
colleagues at
six (!) industry events over the
next two months: Parallels, RSA, MAAWG, World Hosting
Days, CeBIT, and Mobile World Congress. Most of
us have become so adept at staying in touch via
email, social networks, and the occasional phone
call, that it can be refreshing to have a chance
to speak with customers and partners face to
face. So if you plan to be at one of these
events, please be sure to be in touch so we can
arrange to meet you.
In this issue of Commtouch In Touch, we cover a
roundup of
Facebook attacks throughout the year,
our
quarterly trend report, and a new
case study
with our partner Ipswitch. Over the coming few
weeks, Commtouch will be making some new product
announcements and sharing the results of our
Hacked Web Site survey, so stay tuned.
Regards,
Rebecca Steinberg Herson
Vice President
Marketing
Commtouch
Command Antivirus continues to rank
highly in AVTest’s anti-malware
test results. In this past December's test,
Commtouch took second place out of 28 AV
solutions tested, with a detection rate of
99.88%. You can see the results below.
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Ups and downs of Spam, Malware & Facebook
Threats
2011 Malware Email Levels |
2011 proved to be an interesting year for Internet threats. Throughout
the year we saw major swings in a number of
different Internet threats, such as:
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Spam started the year high and then dropped to its lowest
levels in years after the Rustock botnet
takedown, which took place in March
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Malware spam was low in the first
half of the year, rose to
record highs in August and September, and then
faded away again |
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Facebook threats continued to increase throughout the year |
You can find a more detailed analysis of the Rustock botnet takedown and
the different Malware and spam swings in the
April,
July and
October 2011
Internet Threat Reports.
In the January 2012 Internet Threats Trend
Report we provide a detailed analysis of Facebook
threats. Our analysis covers how
social engineering was used to get them started, how they
continue to propagate and we also describe what their
ultimate objectives were.
In addition to the Facebook analysis,
the January 2012 Internet
Threats Trend Report
also includes an analysis of spam,
malware and Web threats from Q4 2011.
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Gmail.com remains the most spoofed
domains while two Facebook domains join the top
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Pharmacy spam is most widely distributed and increasing. |
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Daily turnover of zombies down dramatically. |
Download the
January 2012 Internet
Threats Trend Report
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Partners
can also receive the PowerPoint version
of the trend report to help create
impressive presentations with a minimum
of effort. The slides are available on
our
Partner Marketing
Portal, which provides a
quick and easy way to view and access
the variety of tools Commtouch provides to assist in marketing your
solutions.
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Facebook Becomes a Key Target for Cybercriminals
in 2011
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2011 was the year cybercriminals
"liked" social media as an attack vector,
with Facebook especially popular. The
growth, popularity and inherent
trust between friends on Facebook
has made it an ideal platform for
those seeking profit and the
spreading of malicious content.
Throughout Q4 Commtouch monitored
and blogged on a variety of Facebook
attacks and trends. In addition to
the analysis provided in the
January 2012
Internet Threats Trend Report
there were a number of other
reports and blogs that we released:
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Commtouch Mail Sort
In this month's product highlight we
feature Commtouch's automatic Mail
Sort feature. Mail Sort enables
service providers and vendors to
offer their end-customers the
ability to easily identify their
personal mail as higher priority
than their newsletters and other
“bulk-mailed” material.
Mail sorting services have become
more common in recent years, such as
Google's 'Priority Inbox’ and
Microsoft Hotmail’s ’Sweep'. The
problem with these services is that
they require end users to "train"
the service to know which mails are
personal mails and which are mass
mailings.
Commtouch's Mail Sort removes the
need for end users to train the
service to identify different types
of emails. The feature takes
advantage of Commtouch's GlobalView
Cloud to automatically distinguish
between individual emails and mass
message blasts.
“While opt-in newsletters are valuable, they
overstuff email boxes and make it more time
consuming to find higher priority email. Because Commtouch’s solution is
automated and requires no manual
training, it provides a
differentiator for vendors and
service providers when compared to
recently launched
services that require manual
training.”
Michael Osterman
Osterman Research
A
recent blog post compares how Google and Facebook have implemented similar automated sorting features.
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Simplified Operations and reduced TCO
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Ipswitch Messaging Division
provides communication and
collaboration tools for
companies in need of a
turnkey collaboration system
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SMBs, small to medium
hosting providers, education
and government |
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Severe issues with its
existing antispam engine
were causing Ipswitch to
lose customers. Ipswitch was
also looking to improve the
antivirus protection it
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Learn how
Ipswitch was able
to implement Commtouch's Antispam
protection and increase spam
detection from 65% to over 99% while
lowering false positives. The
implementation of Commtouch's Email
AV containing cloud-based pattern
detection, combined with multi-layer
file scanning, also enabled it to safeguard users from the first moments of a new outbreak and throughout the lifetime of
a malware attack.
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“Our relationship with Commtouch
has proven to be a long running
success. Our customers enjoy the
very best possible protection while
we benefit from the reduced costs
and overhead of working with a
single trusted partner for multiple
solutions. The highly available and
hands-off operation of Commtouch
solution also frees us to focus on
other essential aspects of our
products and business.”
John “Tripp” Allen
President Ipswitch Messaging
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Schedule a meeting
with us at one of these upcoming events:
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Parallels
Summit 2012
February 14-16, 2012
Kissimmee, Florida
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MAAWG
February 21-23, 2012
San Francisco, California
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RSA Conference
- Booth #253
February 27 - March 2, 2012
San Francisco, California
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Mobile World
Congress
February 27 - March 1, 2012
Barcelona, Spain
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CeBIT
March 6-10, 2012
Hannover, Germany
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WorldHostingDays
March 20-23, 2012
Europa-Park, Rust, Germany |
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Commtouch Scheduled to Release Q4'2011 Results
Commtouch will be releasing
its fourth quarter 2011 results on
February 14, 2012. Commtouch management will be
hosting a conference call, to review and discuss
the results, on the same day at 10am Eastern /
7am Pacific / 3pm UK / 5pm Israel time.
It is possible to
participate in the conference call via telephone
or via webcast using a link found on the
Commtouch homepage
(on the day of the conference call).
America's Growth Capital Conference
Commtouch’s CEO Shlomi Yanai will be presenting
at America's Growth Capital
8th Annual West Coast
Conference
taking place on Monday, February 27-28,
2012 in San Francisco. If you would like to
schedule meeting with Commtouch's CEO at this
event, please contact us at
IR@commtouch.com.
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We are pleased to welcome
these recently announced
partners:
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Read more
recent Commtouch industry news coverage.
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In this Issue
AV-Test Results
January Trend Report
Facebook Attacks
Product Highlights
Case Study
Upcoming Events
Investor's Corner
New Customers
In the News
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