PandaTV #35 - Spam-Analysis for WordPress Blog, 2. Security Blogger Summit, Truffle index

Panda TV is a video, which informs about the latest malware- and security facts as well as news regarding Panda Security and its products. We look forward to your comments, suggestions or questions.

Spam-Analysis for WordPress Blog
One of the most common vectors for distributing malware nowadays is spamming blogs with comments pointing to malicious sites that host exploits, malware, rogue antiviruses or other types of scams.
In order to analyze the huge volume of spam comments that come in through our various Panda Blogs experts from PandaLabs developed a blog comment spam honeypot. Basically, this is a modified Akismet plugin corresponding to the free weblog system WordPress, that lots of users use for their blogs. The plugin is set up in the blog as a spam protection. All comments will be checked against the Akismet database, checked for potential spam and are possibly blocked. The honeypot basically posts everything that Akismet detects as spam and all links are followed to detect malware, exploits, drive-by downloads, etc.
If you have a wordpress blog and would like to install the honeypot to send your trapped spam to PandaLabs for analysis, you can simply download it at Pandalabs Blog.

2. Security Blogger Summit
On February 4th at 6 pm the 2nd Security Blogger Summit will take place in Madrid. Organized by Panda Security, the three-hour summit will consist of a roundtable discussion, bringing together several American and Spanish security experts and other internet figures. This edition will focus on Internet users security and actions required to improve the security situation.
Registration is free, but places are limited. For all other interested person, the Blogger summit will be broadcast live on the internet and via iTunes. All further information is available at securitybloggersummit.com.


Panda in the Truffle index
For the second year running, Panda Security has been rated the leading Spanish software company in the 2009 Truffle 100 Europe index, which lists the top 100 European software vendors. This ranking was created by Truffle Capital, one of the main European risk capital companies; CXP, a software market research organization and IDC, global leader in market research. This year, Panda Security is in 39th place due to its investment in development and research and according with that to its global expansion.

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