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- Suit claims Google makes millions on typosquatting
- Harvard Biz School prof Ben Edelman is suing Google over a deal with typosquatters to place ads on those sites. There are some 10,000 cybersquatting domains out there, according to Citizen Hawk. But that sounds wildly low. Edelman estimates there are a million or more. And Edelman estimates Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Ben Edelman, Cybersquatting, Richard Koman, Class Action
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Ben Edelman targets C-NetMedia
- Ben Edelman has created a nice Valentine's day post. I am sure the folks behind C-NetMedia are swooning over it even now. Ben eviscerates these guys. First he tracks all of the deceptive Google ads that make C-NetMedia's product appear to be "official" and attempt to associate them with Spybot...
- Tags: Ben Edelman, Anti-spyware, C-NetMedia, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Play the Sears privacy game (and get your neighbor's purchase history)
- Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School and noted anti-spyware researcher, is on Sears' privacy case again. This time, Edelman, tells you how to find another person's purchase history via Sears' "Manage My Home" site. If you recall, Edelman highlighted how...
- Tags: Game, Sears Roebuck & Co., Ben Edelman, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Security, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Researcher: Sears' use of ComScore software falls short on privacy
- Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School and noted anti-spyware researcher, says Sears and Kmart customers are giving up too much private data when they join a marketing program called "My SHC Community." Edelman walks through the installation of the ComScore software that powers Sears Holdings...
- Tags: Software, Sears Roebuck & Co., Ben Edelman, ComScore Networks Inc., Privacy, FTC, Sears Holdings Community, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-01
- Ben Edelman responds to 180solutions
- Ben Edelman responds to 180solutionsGo get 'em BenThe prevarication, qualification and hair-splitting from 180 Solutions (solutions for whom? An ironic name if there ever was one) would make Bill Clinton blush on his best grand-jury day.The swooning I'm-the-injured-party-here histrionics from Sean at 180 would be amusing pantomime if they...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, spyware, Ben Edelman, 180Solutions
- Discussion threads 2006-01-16
- Ben Edelman responds to 180solutions
- Is DollIdol.com a site targeted to kids? Ben Edelman wrote about it as an example of another 180solutions misleading installation. Besides 180solutions targeting a site aimed at kids, other problems were noted with the installation including poor disclosure, misleading statements and omissions of relevant facts. I blogged about Ben's...
- Tags: Sean Sundwall, 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-01-16
- Adware and affiliate marketing by Ben Edelman
- Adware and affiliate marketing by Ben EdelmanTranscript?Does a transcript exist of the podcast? For me, reading it would be more time-efficient than listening to it.I'll askI don't know at present, but I can check and find out.transcript requestThanks for the suggestion. We're thinking about getting transcripts of these...
- Tags: Podcasts, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, podcast, Ben Edelman, adware, marketing
- Discussion threads 2006-01-11
- Adware and affiliate marketing by Ben Edelman
- Spyware/adware expert Ben Edelman is featured on Thought Shapers with a very enlightening five part podcast on the use of adware in affiliate marketing. Some of the topics Ben addresses are how affiliates cheat by using adware, the rules broken by affiliates using adware, how advertisers are defrauded by affiliates'...
- Tags: adware
- Blog posts 2006-01-10
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- News to know: Microsoft's Hyper-V and reorg; NetSuite; Cisco patches; MacBook Air diary
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Review: Microsoft’s Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice Dana Gardner: Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center Dan Kusnetzky: Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky? Former Microsoft...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., NetSuite Inc., Apple MacBook, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Social Networking, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Sears picks new online leader; Let's hope he gets the security thing
- Sears Holdings is expected to name a Microsoft veteran to head its online business. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sears will name James Barr, who was the general manager of Microsoft's MSN Shopping and Marketplaces. Barr will become a senior vice president of Sears Holdings. ...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Leader, Sears Holdings, James Barr, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- Lawyers circle Sears over privacy
- Sears may have taken down a feature that allowed you to see anyone's purchase history, but not fast enough to keep the lawyers at bay. On Friday, KamberEdelson filed a class action complaint alleging that Sears ManageMyHome.com site violates the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act. The suit, first...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Privacy, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Does Trillian have a crapware problem?
- StopBadware.org researcher Liana Mon has taken Cerulean Studios to task for bundling two third-party applications into the popular free Trillian IM client, arguing that users who are not careful during the Trillian installation process could end up with a crapware problem.During the installation process, the default setting is for Trillian...
- Tags: Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Open source, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Google yields to EU privacy concerns
- The battle for anonymity on the Internet rages on. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, search engines are having to comply with assorted countries' laws while maintaining privacy for their customers, reports Tech News World.In a recent example, Google has bowed to pressure from the European Union's Data...
- Tags: Privacy, International
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Zango's continued bad practices in light of FTC's proposed settlement terms
- Just over two weeks ago, the FTC announced a proposed settlement with Zango for the complaint filed earlier this year. Under terms of the settlement, Zango is required to give up $3 million in ill-gotten gains and to stop a number of bad practices that have been documented back to...
- Tags: Spyware/adware news
- Blog posts 2006-11-19
- Zango, the FTC, MySpace and You Tube
- This past Friday, the FTC announced a $3 million dollar settlement with Zango, formerly named 180solutions, in a lawsuit charging Zango with unfair and deceptive business practices, among other things. See ZDNet story here with more details. FTC announcement here. Case documents can be downloaded here.As usual Zango refuses...
- Tags: Spyware/adware warnings, Spyware/adware news, Zango
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- Edelman on 'Deceptive Door Openers' and Ask toolbars
- In a new article posted this morning, Ben Edelman continues his investigation of high-profile companies clogging users computers with junk. Todays target: InterActiveCorps Ask.com, known for its widespread "smiley" toolbars.Last year I blogged about Asks various toolbars and the trinkets Ask uses to get users to install them. ...
- Tags: toolbar, Ask
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Click fraud - here we go again
- Click fraud - here we go againMaybe contracts are already specific enoughGreat post. There's a lot I can immediately agree with -- the know-your-partner idea, the fraud tax, etc. Almost all of your piece, in fact.But I wonder whether the contracts actually need to get much more specific,...
- Tags: Spyware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Litigation, click fraud
- Discussion threads 2006-10-15
- Is Zango stealing affiliate commissions from adult webmasters?
- It seems that Zango, formerly known as 180solutions, the company we all love to hate, has royally ticked off a bunch of adult webmasters. Paperghost, aka Chris Boyd, has the story, complete with links to forums where the adult webmasters discuss Zango allegedly stealing affiliate commissions. True? I...
- Tags: Zango
- Blog posts 2006-10-13
- Should anti-spyware programs remove cookies?
- Spyware expert Ben Edelman has written a great piece on anti-spyware programs and cookies. He tested eleven different anti-spyware programs against cookies from 50 advertising systems and posted detailed results including which anti-spyware programs detected which cookies and which programs detected the most cookies. At the extreme ends...
- Tags: anti-spyware
- Blog posts 2006-09-18
- Spyware expert: Vonage injects ads into others' sites
- Spyware expert Ben Edelman- who is so brilliant he is scary-has posted a damning study of, as he titles it "How Vonage Funds Spyware." Citing 12 examples of this practice, Ben groups them into four buckets: Spyware-Delivered Pop-Up Ads, Banners Injected Into Others' Sites, Spyware Lead Acquisitions...
- Tags: Ben, Vonage Holdings Corp., spyware
- Blog posts 2006-07-18
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