Media Alert
FaceTime IMPact Center Warns IMPact Index Jumps to 7; Highest Level in Nearly Two Months
W32/Mytob Variant Keeps Mutating and Spreading
FOSTER CITY, Calif. - June 2, 2005 - FaceTime today warns the IMPact Index jumped to 7; the highest level in weeks. The increase is a reflection of over a dozen new threats including a new high risk variant of the W32/Mytob worm that is mutating and spreading rapidly through the Windows platform. The W32/Mytob variant, which first appeared on the IRC networks in late March, is a backdoor Trojan that allows unauthorized remote access to an infected computer and turns off anti-virus applications.
W32/Mytob-P spreads by allowing others to access the computer, sends itself to email addresses found on the infected network and forges the sender's email address. To learn more about the W32/Mytob-P and other threats visit the FaceTime IMPact Center at www.facetime.com/impactcenter.
As part of its security initiative, FaceTime offers remediation that will enable full protection against new flaws from propagating and causing serious network damage.
FaceTime's Enterprise Edition products provide detection and blocking for out of policy IM, P2P, IRC and other real-time communications traffic on your network. For a comprehensive list of IM and P2P threats and the latest threat index visit the IMPact Center: http://www.facetime.com/impactcenter
FaceTime Security Initiatives
The FaceTime IM and P2P Activity (IMPact) Team is the only focused and specialized intelligence and response organization addressing the rapid proliferation of new IM and P2P threats and provides an aggregate risk level of the day's threats, with the IMPact Index. The IMPact Team is comprised of FaceTime's security experts working from FaceTime's U.S. and India locations to monitor, analyze and report on all malicious IM and P2P-related activity. The team delivers documented countermeasures to the IT community at large to instantly defend against the latest attacks.
FaceTime also offers a Vulnerability Assessment Survey and Test (VAST), a free service that helps companies identify potential IM and P2P threats in their enterprise. The assessment consists of three conclusive steps including evaluation of existing IM and P2P network policies, procedures and products; specialized testing for real-time communications-based vulnerabilities; and a detailed report with resolution recommendations. To sign up for a vulnerability assessment, visit http://www.facetime.com/vulnerability
About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant
messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number one by
IDC for four consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by
more than 900 customers – including nine of the 10 largest U.S. banks – for
security, management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime
supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and enterprise
IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM,
Reuters and Jabber.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE.
The FaceForward blog, at http://blog.facetime.com,
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