Tumbleweed Message Protection Lab Detects Excel Spam Hitting Inboxes
July 24 2007 - 8:00AM
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Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD): News Facts
Tumbleweed� Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: TMWD), the industry's
leading pure play messaging security vendor, today announced a new
trend in spam -- Excel files. According to the Tumbleweed Message
Protection Lab, spammers have been sending financial scam emails
with Excel spreadsheets (.xls) attached. -- Written in English, the
documents are skillfully formatted and made to look like brochures
-- Email subject lines and attachments have financially oriented
titles such as: "requested report72858.xls" or "detail invoice.xls"
-- There are two variations of Excel spam: -- Emails with directly
attached Excel files -- Emails with attached zipped Excel files The
Tumbleweed Message Protection Lab, which has spearheaded this
analysis, is a research facility established to analyze spam and
study messaging security and protection. -- The lab analyzes email
traffic and trends to identify email threats such as spam, image
spam, phishing and other types of email threats. -- The Lab is
staffed by experts who continually monitor worldwide spam outbreaks
to identify new trends and tactics, and create and publish new
heuristics to stop them. Quotes attributed to Willy Leichter,
Director of Product Marketing for Tumbleweed �Spammers are
continuously looking for ways to get into our inboxes and due to
recent PDF success, they have now turned to Excel and will likely
continue to exploit other applications to deliver spam.� �It�s
imperative to have an email security solution that is able to adapt
to these new threats. As they did with image spam and PDF files,
spammers are continually finding new ways to avoid detection.�
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inbound spam. These best-in-breed products enable businesses to
manage inbound and outbound traffic, block threats, encrypt
messages and optimize network performance. MailGate products
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STATEMENT Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements
contained in this press release are based on plans and expectations
as of the date of the press release, and that a number of factors
could cause the actual results to differ materially from the
guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the
Safe Harbor statement below. Except for the historical information
contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may
constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those projected, particularly with respect to Tumbleweed�s
ability to identify new trends and tactics in email threats and
provide solutions that address these threats in a timely manner. In
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cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you
to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed�s Form
10-K filed March 14, 2007 and Form 10-Q filed May 10, 2007.
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not indicate that Tumbleweed is reaffirming or confirming any of
the information contained herein. About Tumbleweed Tumbleweed
Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), the industry�s leading pure
play messaging security vendor, provides world-class innovative
messaging security solutions for organizations of all sizes.
Organizations rely on Tumbleweed's solutions to securely manage
their Internet communications, spanning email management to file
transfers. Tumbleweed has nearly 2,700 customers worldwide,
representing industries such as Finance, Healthcare, and the U.S.
Government. The world�s most security conscious organizations rely
upon Tumbleweed technology including Bank of America Securities, JP
Morgan Chase & Co., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and
the U.S. Department of Defense. Our award-winning products build on
fourteen years of R&D and 26 security patents in the U.S. alone
� many of which are licensed by other security vendors. More
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