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What you should know about Social Engineering

Tina Lee — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:28:15 +0800

The term social engineering is familiar to many of us and occasionally makes the headlines of IT news and reports. However, its threat and its high penetration rate towards organizations is hardly recognized by the public.

Social engineering takes advantage of human curiosity, utilize intriguing mail title that is related to the latest news , events, gossip, special deals etc... and formated as a normal mail, seducing recipients to click or to download the attachments of it. Once opening these mail or attachments, personal information and organzation's important messages have sneaked out to the internet without the recipient noticing.

How can this happen? For example, some HTML file have malicious URL that was hidden within the file. Further changing the file name to .doc which forge to be a word file, recipients open the attachments without knowing there has been a automatic connection to download trojans.

Another kind of social engineering mail will embedd a picture download link, once the recipients have agreed to download the pictures, these phishing mail not only will download the pictures but as well as malicious URL, which will download the trojans simultaneously.

So next time when an unknown sender send you a mail with intriguing title of ''Special Deal of IPAD 2'', ''the ten hottest apps on iphone'' dont open or download the mail so soon, and look carefully for the sender address. Remember, '' curiosity kills the cat'' best describes how social engineering mail works.

[About Cellopoint Social Engineering Drill]

Cellopoint provides all levels and content of social engineering drill procatices. Utilizing different categories and subject of social engineering mails to test organizations users, combining with social engineering education training, which will enhance the security awareness of users and intensify the risk management of organizations. read more »

Cellopoint Email Security Prediction in second half of 2010

Nicki Koo — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 +0800

- 2010/5/25 -

According to Cellopoint Jan to Apr 2010 email security reports released by Cellopoint Global Anti-spam Center (CGAC), spam accounts for about 79% of all email traffic with the daily average amount of 100 billion. Among them, 90 % of which are sending out from Botnets. The spokesman from Cellpoint indicates that in order to improve organizational email safety, IT managers should focus on the enhancement of defensive tactics against the spam threats from Botnets.

Cellopoint reports show that the global ratio of spam from bad sources as Zombies and Botnets is 79%, and there are already more than 5 million computers are hijacked by the ten biggest Botnets such as Cutwail, Rustock and Mega-D…etc. These puppet computers are selling to spammers in black market. Spammers usually delivery spam via social engineering methods, such as sending spam with malicious links. The popular subjects are all-encompassing. For example, correspondence degree promotion which accounts for 29% of spam and becomes the hottest in 2010, financial and invoice service is 17%, phishing is 15%, and health care related is 15% of all email-borne threats.

General spam has little effect on the information security, but social engineering spam with malicious messages and URLs are much harmful. But the end users have no idea of how to distinguish from them. That’s why IT manager should control the access for social engineering email inside end user quarantine. Malicious email should be apart from general spam email, which is allowed to re-send the complete envelope of email by end user. The method is designed to protect users from network security risks.

Cellopoint global anti-spam Centre (CGAC) recommended the use of email security software with the malicious links filtering and attachments scanning features. With special treatment for social engineering email and the quarantine should be only opened to IT managers. Cellopoint provides social engineering defense mechanism to remove the malicious email link and malicious attachments, and put the message to the quarantine area separately for end user review. That will to help prevent users from falling for phishing and malware attacks, while retaining the flexibility to the user's recipient. In addition, through CelloCloud ™ behavior monitoring on global mail traffic, an online detection of social engineering attacks, and proactive delivery of real-time "spam database updates" to the client, can filter messages in the first time, against the threat invasion.

Cellopoint is the leader in email security and management that protects you from email threats and organizes your email infrastructure. Information about Cellopoint can be found at http://www.cellopoint.com read more »

Cellopoint Cloud Series 3: Embrace SaaS & Virtualization to Promote Organizational Competitiveness

Nicki Koo — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 +0800

-2010/5/4-
In an increasingly complex world, the key point of organizational competitiveness maintenance is the focus on its core abilities. It is a great test for the IT management as for how to accelerate information cascades & daily business processing speeds. Traditional self-constructed software is unable to fast respond to the volatile organizational needs because of needs for more maintenance & management costs. The emergence of Cloud Computing right at this time brings about the new workflow thinking. It uses the Internet technologies, providing external customers with massive & scalable IT characteristics as services & reducing individual investment due to economy of scale. Its nature is to take physical assets on lease according to the organizational computing requirements. Owing to no needs of installations & executions on the organizational computers, Cloud Computing alleviates the burdens of software/hardware maintenance, management, & support on customers.

Cloud Computing applications are mainly classified into the Virtualization & SaaS：

Virtualization: It optimizes the existing resources employment, simplifies the infrastructure of software management, maintenance, & deployment, and reduces needs for hardware so as to further reduce electricity consumption, needs for the hosting room, & air-conditioning costs. Through the Virtualization, software providers can package the software as an independent VM Appliance, which contains its own operating-system. The VM Appliance does not have version support for different hardware platforms; it only has to go through the Virtual Machine, which accelerates the system imports & reduces barriers to entry, for direct deployment of the VM Appliance,

SaaS: It is not just a certain product but a software service delivery method. Through the software delivery patterns, users do not deploy maintenance for the information system & they do not pay for software licenses; they only pay the service provider for subscription to use the software services needed. For example, through the SaaS, companies do not procure the Email system, supportive hardware servers, and the storage on their own. Instead, they directly procure the number of Email accounts needed from the service provider and pay for the volume-based price.

The VM Appliance & SaaS both have characteristics of Service on Demand & the infrastructure of data sharing center, which are different from the services of exclusive physical servers in the traditional hosting room (clients self-construct exclusive server groups in the hosting room at the Center). Cloud Data Center allows services based on their needs, such as storage, CPU resources, network management & bandwidth, etc. Its Computing power & Storage are automatically scalable to deal with the ever-increasing needs. For example, under the traditional software deployment patterns, the system is unable to deal with the sudden increase of user needs & the organization is forced to restrict user access until being able to buy software & hardware to extend its systems. The Cloud Data Center automatically allocates new resources for dealing with needs & the organization pays only for the resources used when adopting Cloud deployment patterns. Employing potentials of unlimited scalability, availability, & reliability from the Cloud service providers, IT managers can realign resources, focus on providing services needed by customers & employees, & ensure competitive differentiation instead putting it focus on the infrastructure of management & IT maintenance.

Assess & select the best-fit solutions according to the software import types.

Function	Software	hardware platform	VM Appliance	SaaS
Hot-Plugging Support	No	Yes	Yes, if with the Virtual Machine.	Yes
Exclusive Hardware Platform	No	Yes	No	No
System Performance Optimization	No	Dependence on hardware models	Yes, if with the load balance.	Yes
High Usability	Dependence on software design	Dependence on hardware design	backup & restoration capabilities	Yes
Import Method	Installation CD	Physical Transport Required	Download Image Files	Only Computers Online
Scalability	Dependence on software design	Additional Hardware Platform Purchase Required	voluntary upgrade the hardware required	Structures Designed Exclusively For Scalability
Service Support	Self-Management	Self-Management	Self-Management & Fast Restoration	Round-the-Clock Support & SLA from service providers
Initial Investment	Yes	Yes	Yes, but only the virtualization software purchase.	No, but only subscription fees.

The Cellopoint Virtualization solution: It employs the virtualization technology to integrate “mail security” & “management application” into a set of virtual servers, lowering the management complexity & operation costs. This solution adopts module design and provides software virtualization deployment based on the CelloOS™ operating system. Its functions include email security defense, content checking, archive indexing, mail encryption, all of which are compatible with VMware & Citrix (Xen) structures. It is based on user requirements to dynamically allocate & execute functions needed & it saves costs of the software/hardware licenses, possessing dynamic configuration capabilities & maintaining its own scalability at any time.

The Cellopoint Cloud hosted email security service: It provides the SaaS junk mail filters, virus mail filters, anti-phishing, and other email attack protection, redirecting clean, normal mails back to the organizational mail servers. The Cellopoint adopts the CelloCloud™ technology, possessing characteristics of global defense online & real-time protection and updates. Customers, who have exclusive Mail Domain, can use the Cellopoint Cloud hosted email security services. The Cellopoint provides the Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, & Anti-Malware shields, tackling all the problems at one sweep.
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Cellopoint Cloud Series 2: Cloud Computing Applications in Email Security

Nicki Koo — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0800

-2010/4/26-
Junk mails are evolving faster than viruses. Attacks of global scale & the incidence are continually expanding & worsening. Sheer dependence on the traditional defense mechanism (the keywords or the Bayesian algorithm) is already unable to deal with the volatile network environment. The real-time defense can be in effect only through the real-time global network, collecting threat events extensively & only through the high-speed computing technologies, analyzing the trends & providing the correspondent solutions. It requires dynamic, high-speed analysis capabilities to deal with the volatile mail threats, and the emergence of Cloud Computing enables the information security providers to provide more comprehensive services. Cloud Computing integrates concepts of parallel processing, Grid Computing, unknown threat activities judgment, etc. It backfeeds the newest information of network threats to the Cloud for automatic analysis & processing through the surveillance of network activities and sends solutions to clients. Customers can acquire the newest protection through cost-efficient methods, such as data leakage prevention, intrusion defense, network access control, vulnerability management, etc.

The CelloCloud™ is the exclusive Email Security Cloud Technology through R&D (Research & Development) at the Cellopoint. With the Cloud Computing as the core framework of mail defense mechanism, two main appeals made are the Global Defense & the Real-Time Update Protection with the unique Cellopoint SMTP connection defense mechanism as the SMTP terminal surveillance.

CelloCloud™ Core Technologies：

1. Sender Reputation List, SRL
It uses dynamic rating to evaluate the email sender reputations. The dynamic rating system analyzes data according to the websites, IPs & the URL history, valid time, change history, and behaviors, combining the given junk mail reputation ( or notoriety) database for dynamic analyses to produce the reputation points. This technology can block malicious emails in the Cloud according to the SRL, preventing the information security threats from spreading through the Zombie or the Botnet.

2. Threats Sensor System
It covers the Threats Sensor Systems formed with the global clients, partners, and trapping webs. Once suspicious mail sending behaviors detected, it will automatically backfeed relevant information to the CelloCloud™. The CelloCloud™ concludes and certifies if real abnormal activities occur, and it activates defense for the clients. Sporadic, single mail activities on the clients might be normal, but simultaneous, multiple occurrences on the clients can be malicious attacks. Sensors distributed over the Cellopoint clients & partners can detect suspicious mail activities, backfeeding useful information to the CelloCloud™ & assisting abnormal behavior surveillance. This technology integrates resources form the client community, bringing mutual assistance & zero time difference email threats defense into full play.

3. HoneyPot Network
The Cellopoint deploys a massive amount of Decoy Accounts around the globe, forming world-class junk mail samples, the HoneyPot system. It collects at least hundreds of millions of brand-new samples or variations every day, including all kinds of languages & samplings from different sources.

4.CGAC™ (Cellopoint Global Anti-spam Center)
It comprises mail analysis experts both across America & Asia, monitoring global mail activities for 24-hour all year round & detecting attacks of, such as the Zombie network, Image Spam, PDF or ZIP variation junk mails, etc. Experts in charge of each kind of language produced relevant reports & candidate updates for mail threats database after mail activity analyses. And through massive stress & error tests for the samples, they are officially issued to the mail threats database.

The Cellopoint applies several kinds of technologies & data collections, including the global partnership, client defense network, junk mails from the HoneyPot Network, Cello Spider Active Threats Information captures, and the CelloLabsTM Global Threat Sensor System. It provides solutions through real-time research & control of the threat trends.

CelloCloud™ application services：

1. Real-time Spam Pattern Update: It acquires the newest, real-time mail threats updates online. Besides issuing updates every hour, once the CelloCloud™ detects abnormal mail activities or sudden mail attacks, it will immediately issue new database dynamic updates, and that is effective in counteracting fierce mail bombings. The all-year-round CGAC monitors the CelloCloudTM operations, ensuring that clients acquire the newest database updates against mail threats.

2. Hosted Email Security: Email SaaS, Cloud spam-blocking, virus mails, & other threats blocking.

3. Grid Storage: It provides full mail backup & archive services. It can dynamically & flexibly extend its computing power and storage in response to the needs of Email management, eDiscovery, and lawful regulations. read more »

Mail Data Protection Strategies after the Personal Data Protection Law passed - Cellopoint DLP solution

Nicki Koo — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:10:36 +0800

– 2010/4/23 –
Since the Computer-Processed Personal Data Protection Law was issued in 1995, it had mainly regulated the public authorities and the eight industries otherwise not to encroach upon people’s personality rights when processing personal data with computers. The Legislative Yuan is now deliberating on the new version of Personal Data Protection Law, which will no longer specify the applicable industries and all industries will have to comply with. However, in order to prevent frauds from worsening, the government asked non-store retailers to be applicable to the Personal Data Law from July 1st before the approval of the new law, asking related industries to protect personal data well to prevent frauds from happening. But these provisions and articles of the law are verbose (complicated). Companies always have trouble in how to comply with it when faced with the legality. With slight negligence, they are very likely to have an operational crisis of being suspected of being involved in data leakage and violating the Personal Data Law.

Cellopoint concludes two categories that account for data leakage:

E-mail of daily business necessities, Internet surfing within the company, and the USB devices.
Irrelevance to Non-daily business of IM (instant messaging), file-sharing, etc.

Therefore, when planning the organization data protection strategies, the organization structures, data types, and data streams are required be clarified. Data types are classified as E-mail, file-sharing, FTP, and IM while data streams are of data lifecycle management. Only after understanding them can the easy-to-be-managed information security policy be set up to meet the needs of the company and its regulation compliance.

As far as E-mail data protection is concerned, it is divided into two parts and conducted by following the aforementioned methods.

Intensify transmission security. Using the TLS gateway encryption doesn’t interfere with the users behaviors and that establishes the secure E-mail VPN, protecting the E-mail communication securities between partners and customers. Flexible TLS options can encrypt the E-mail to-and-fro between two units to protect the confidential information.
Check the mail contents to prevent data leakage. The Cellopoint DLP solution provides the precise, deep detection for mail contents, which can prevent E-mail from leakage due to negligence. When an outgoing mail is detected to bring sensitive information, such as names, identification cards, and credit cards, the Cellopoint DLP solution can immediately pause sending the mail and touches off the following actions:

a. Move the mail to the pending archive.
b. Re-transmit to the checkers or superintendents.
c. Send out the mail after automatic encryption.
d. Directly remove it to prevent the sensitive mail data from leakage and centralize the
checking records for inquiries.

Cellopoint DLP is a complete data leakage solution. It incorporates simultaneous mail transmission security and mail content checking, leaving the composition, transmission, opening, deletion, and the life cycle of the mail under protection. read more »

Cellopoint Cloud Series 1: the Past, Present, and the Future of Cloud Computing

Nicki Koo — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0800

2010/4/20

What on earth is the currently hottest Cloud Computing? What is its difference from the Grid Computing? This article will take you to the origins, conceptions, and related applications of Cloud Computing. You might have heard another noun, Grid Computing, before Cloud Computing was stirred up. Many people consider Grid Computing & Cloud Computing very much alike. In fact, there is no strict segmentation between the two concepts. They are both considered the concepts derived from Distributed Computing.

Grid Computing VS Cloud Computing
Grid Computing:
It is made of the virtual computing cluster by using the un-used resources (CPU resources & Disk Storage) from a large number of heterogeneous computers (usually called Desktops), and it provides a structure for solving massive computing problems. Grid Computing focuses on the abilities of cross-domain computing support. With Parallel Computing applied, it focuses on the full-use of resources between and across the companies to jointly solve the tough computing tasks。
Cloud Computing:
It is a kind of dynamically scalable computing. The basic concept is to divide the task of computing into several processes. After they are processed and analyzed by the servo group (cloud hosts) distributed over the Internet, the outcomes will be returned to the end-users. Although Cloud Computing originates from Parallel Computing, it is not away from the concepts of Grid Computing. But, Cloud Computing focuses more on the processes of data.

Mainstream Cloud Technologies:
MapReduce :
It is the key technology that Google applies to Cloud Computing, which allows developers to develop more programs that process massive data. First, it divides the data into unrelated segments through the Map program for a large number of computers to process. Results are further gathered and integrated through the Reduce program. Then it outputs the outcomes required by developers.
Hadoop：
Hadoop is an open-source program inspired by the Google Cloud Structure. The structure of Hadoop is implemented with the concepts proposed by the Google BigTable and the Google File System. It is written in Java, which can provide a Distributed Computing environment for massive data. But the Distributed File System used is different from Google’s. Yahoo is the main contributor and user of the program.。

Service Patterns of Cloud Computing
The application of Cloud Computing usually provides the clients through the Internet with information technologies, including computation, storage, and bandwidth, in a virtual form of “services”. Through Cloud Computing, users only have to take the services as Black Boxes and input the actions required. They don’t have to know the operations inside the Boxes. They only have to wait for the outcomes returned.
Three patterns based on service categories:

1. Software as a Service, SaaS
The SaaS is a pattern of acquiring the software deployment through the Internet. It provides the company with the Software on Demand from the front-end office applications, such as Email and word processing to the back-end data analysis, customer relationship management, business process management, and human resource management. Representatives are Google, Salesforce, Microsoft, etc.

2. Platform as a service, PaaS
The PaaS is a kind of combination of Servo Hosting Platform and a Virtual Solution. Users don’t have to construct the hardware hosts and the operating systems by themselves. Through the rented Internet, PaaS service providers provide the Virtual Hosting Platform, which saves software & hardware maintenance and labor & time management. Through the PaaS, software providers can focus on the software development and accelerate function deployment online. Well-known developers are Amazon web service, Google App Engine, etc.

3. Infrastructure as a service, IaaS
IaaS makes the IT infrastructure kind of service. The company outsources the structure required within the company to the IaaS contractors. Compared with the costs of ordering hardware, software, storage, power, and the bandwidth for construction of traditional computer room, the company can acquire the IT resources more efficiently by paying per use. The concepts of the Private Cloud & the Hybrid Cloud are extensions of the IaaS。Private Cloud makes the exterior resources interior within the company through the VPN; Hybrid Cloud, which integrates cloud services from different providers more flexibly, combines the Public Cloud/SaaS and the Private Cloud. Sensitive data are served by the Private Cloud while non-confidential data are served by the Public Cloud of lower costs.

More and more suppliers are investing in the cloud services, and that means the Cloud service Market has become the trend for the future. The rise of the market means that the company can lower the construction costs of information services and that it can focus on the core of its operations to improve efficiency and competitiveness. However, Cloud services also bring about many problems, such as security apprehensions, whether or not the Service Level is sufficient for dealing with the daily operational requests from the company, the compatibility with the existing systems, etc. In the presence of the Cloud security problems, the next article will take you to the new technologies and its applications developed by information security providers.

Cellopoint announces its 2010 Email Security Predictions report

Nicki Koo — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:03:16 +0800

San Jose, January 4, 2010- According to CelloLabs analysis, spam and email threats continue to grow in 2010 as the social engineering tactics have become increasingly sophisticated. Hackers are able to attack specific groups at a higher success rate by taking the approach of "quality over quantity" like Target Attract and Spear Phishing.

Six 2010 Email Security Predictions from Cellopoint:

1. Social Networking Threats Gone Worse
Social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster inevitably become the major targets of hackers in 2010. More and more business PR departments approach customers for brand promotion by taking advantage of the spike in social networking sites and their whirling users. However, at the same time, the fame of social networking sites also bring concerns about privacy and security, such as possible vulnerabilities to leak sensitive information. Back to 2009, millions of Facebook users suffered a number of social engineering attacks, for example, a "Reset Password" notification with a malicious link leading to a guise website. At least tens of thousands of members clicked the link and exposed their sensitive data, and some were even infected by Trojans. CelloLabs estimates that a significant increasing number of people will be under attack this year. Therefore, from social networking site providers, enterprises, organizations to individuals, it is time to act to spare from the threat.

2. Third-party Applications on SNS are Time Bombs
Many social networking sites(SNS) provide open platforms for third-party applications and social games to engage users. Nevertheless, come with the business opportunities are security concerns. Hackers gain access through social networking sites with open API and create malicious applications with backdoors to launch attacks and steal user’s personal information or install Trojan on users' computer.

3. Botnet and Malware Increase
Hackers with advanced Botnet technology now can randomly switch domains, host locations and even proxy servers, which allow Zombie programs spread like the seeds of the revival in compromised hosts. Even the service providers had turn off the service, hackers can still easily reconstruct Botnet(Zombie Network) elsewhere, continue to send spam, phishing emails, denial of service attack(DDoS), Directory Harvest Attacks(DHA) and mail bombs. Threats rush like waves, one trouble after another, and paralyze IT infrastructure and services if you do not have adequate information security precautions.

4. URL Shortening Tools Become Hackers’ Favorite
The popularity of social networking and micro-blogging sites, which limit users with 140 characters in a message, has led users to use shortened URLs in their pages. Although URL shortening are commonly used, it also causes problems, especially when users are uncertain whether a shortened URL will lead them to a phishing site or a malicious site, or even lead them to download Trojan when clicking the link. CelloLabs detects that about 70 percent of spam contain a shortened URL as the guise of a real phishing site last year and expects this proportion may exceeding to 90 percent in 2010.

5. Non-English Spam Increase
Recent growths of Asia-Pacific economy also nourish Spammer underground economy with an increasing number of non-English spam, especially in Chinese. According CelloLabs' study, the rate of non-English spam may grow over 50 percent and the amount of junk email will blast this year due to lucrative of economic development, network infrastructure, and development of broadband Internet access.

6. Cloud Computing Security Issue Arise
Cloud computing is hot. And the preservation of sensitive data has become one of the hottest topics in information security because data and computing are running on remote servers. CelloLabs predict that hackers may attack the cloud infrastructures, seize control of the hosts to steal information, and use the compromised cloud servers as attacking tools.

About Cellopoint
Cellopoint is a leading provider of email UTM (Unified Threat Management) solutions for organizations ranging from small businesses to large enterprises and ISPs. We defend against email threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential data by content filtering and secure mail delivery, archive email to protect your digital assets, comply with regulatory inquiries and corporate investigations in a single, web-based platform. We design the maximum reliable, scalable and flexible solutions to help you minimize administration time, mitigate liabilities and secure information. More information is available at www.cellopoint.com read more »

Cellopoint Email UTM supports the techniques of Cloud Security for Email

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 +0800

Taipei-2009/5/19
Cellopoint, a company of email security solution provider, announced a new email security and management solution. The whole new "Cellopoint Email UTM " integrates multiple functions such as " Emails' secure defense" ,"Content filters" and" Archive and retrieval". It also provides the services of "A unified defense against the global threats" and "Instant online protection updates" to their clients through the techniques of Cloud Security in order to make the protection better.

Cellopoint is the first company to develop the idea of "Cloud Security for Email". It hopes to build up a united safety net for all the emails around the world through the techniques of "Cloud Computing". When a brand new threat shows up, the threat sensor system of CelloCloud™ can immediately detect the email's abnormal behavior in a few minutes and provide a defense measure through the analysis and calculation from CelloCloud™. It will update the anti-spam characteristics database and protect the clients' email system from the threats.

Cellopoint Email UTM is based on an intensifying efficiency hardware platform and it is designed with CelloOS™ module. It integrates multiple functions such as " Emails' secure defense", "Content filters" and" Backup files retrieval" into one solution which can really balance the cost and efficiency and also be able to be collocated according to the clients' needs. The clients don't need to maintain different kinds of products and configuration files. Cellopoint makes the security and management of email a lot easier for you. Companies and organizations no longer need to spend lots of money on IT and buying dispersive emails security products. Using Cellopoint Email UTM can not only reduce the cost of your IT budget, but also let you enjoy the benefits from CelloCloud™ instant online protection. You can get more info about the free trial from Cellopoint website. www.cellopoint.com/tw/try read more »

CelloCloud™ is taking the security of emails into a whole new level

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0800

2009/4/21 According to the latest report from Gartner,the numbers of phishing had an explosive growth in 2008.Just in the U.S, there are 5 millions victims. Seventy percent of the businesses,organizations and service providers have taken some defenses,but the time limits of those traditional antispam techonology is still a big problem. Its interception function can't catch up with the change of the spams.It's useless when facing the attacts of the spam mails with a new form. Therefore the problems of spams and scams on line are getting more and more and become very common.

According to the study of Radicati Group, there are about 200 billions spams spreading on the Internet everyday. More than 70 % of them are advertisments,virus or phishing mails.The speed of the changes of its sending resource,delivery patterns and its content is faster than the evolution of the virus.Therefore CelloLabs™ used the advanced techs ,"Cloud Computing", to help solving the new threats from the new spams.It can analyze and control the change of the mails from everywhere and provide the latest method to defense the spams. It provides all the cients the services of " online defense" and will be able to update the data of the features of antipams.

CelloCloud™'s new techs improved all the traditional anti-spams' techs,including black list, database classification, Bayesian algorithm, single-user heuristic learning etc. It built a strong analyzing structrue of the servers' movements.It analyzes all the data automatically twenty four seven and monitors the delivery ,tendency ,behaviors and the features of all the emails around the world. It shortens the responding time of a spam's attact and let the clients have an immediate update and protection in order to reduce the chance to be invaded. When the threats show up suddently, CelloCloud™ can detect them in a few minutes and publish an update of Anti-spam database.It can efficiently solve the time limited problem of the traditional antispams defense. The clients don't have to pay a huge amount of money to get the best and secured protection. CelloCloud™ is taking the defense system of protecting emails into a cloudy safe world.
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Cellopoint remind the attack by Conficker is not done yet

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0800

2009/4/14 – The strongest worm “Conficker” that even the Microsoft can not even crake it down didn’t active on April 1st after all the anti-virus programmers are busy for a week to protect all the computers from it. This is just a trick that hackers do for April fool’s day. At the same time, “conflicker” is slowly but surely mutative and waiting for its time to strike again. Cellopoint Global Anti-spam Center (CGAC) inspect this new activities through the spam mail and give the warring for everyone to be careful. The mutative Conficker.e (also named Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Kido ) will disguise as the anti-virus program. It will link with other inflated Zombie computers by P2P and become a massive botnet. At the same time, it will also use the file name or service name to link with the Waledac spam mail network to download another virus. Email-Worm.Win32.Iksmas.atz would use this as the step stone for spam mail. This attack might be the same group of hackers or Conficker sell its resource to Waledac to expand its own spam mail market.

Cellopoint discover the Conficker mutation in the beginning of April. We send out the CGAC online protection update immediately. It can allow us to protect our clients all over the world from thrill of Conficker. CGAC online protection services include anti-spam, virus email, anti-spy, fishing, transfer, DoS attack protection, anti-hack, E-mail encryption and signature, fix the over loading spam problem.CGAC holding the number 1 place of 2008 email security management / Anti-spam , if you want to know more about Cellopoint Email-UTM security and management, plase check our webweite at http://www.cellopoint.com/