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Spotlight on Austin: Click Forensics' Steve O'Brien

Spotlight on Austin: Click Forensics' Steve O'BrienAustin is innovating beyond musicI lived in worked and the Bay Area, too. I understand Steve's point of view, but I disagree. I think many Austinites don't believe that Austin and Silicon Valley are true competitors for business innovation. They are entirely different places,...

Tags: Games, Venture capital, Strategy, Steve O'Brien, Spotlight-on Austin, game, Click Forensics

Discussion threads 2009-03-17

Click fraud at record high, poor economy to blame

More than 17 percent of all clickthroughs on Web advertising are the result of click fraud, the act of clicking on a Web ad to artificially increase its clickthrough rate, according to the latest report from Click Forensics, a company that specializes in monitoring and preventing internet crime. ...

Tags: Click Fraud, Click Forensics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Google paints $3.7 billion pretty picture

Google paints $3.7 billion pretty picturemy observations- This indicating me that Google would put Yahoo out of business. and would become recognized monopoly.- Click fraud rate was 14.8 percent for Q1 2007 versus 13.7 percent for the same quarter in 2006. Click Forensics believes click fraud may be mirroring other...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Click Forensics, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-04-19

Additional Resources

House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites

Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Visual IP Trace 5.0c (Windows)

Trace and report hackers, investigate web sites with Visual IP Trace. Knowing where a suspect intruder is located, where a malicious e-mail originated, or validating the location of a Web site is key information to identify security threats, track and report abusers. Visual IP Trace's unique IP address location technology...

Tags: Web, Trace, IP, Microsoft Windows, Location, Visualware, Visual IP Trace, Network Technology, Networking, Security

Software downloads 2009-10-05

'Bahama' botnet linked to click-fraud surge

Researchers at Click Forensics have stumbled upon a click-fraud botnet using a series of sophisticated redirection tricks to cheat search engine filters. by Ryan Naraine

Tags: Search Engine, Click Fraud, Search, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-09-18

Frugal Friday: "Jackdotting", Chrome OS, Amazon Kindle, Wildpackets

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss this week's "Jackdotting" effect on content distribution networks, Google's Chrome OS, The price reduction on the Amazon Kindle 2 and talk with Jay Botelho of WildPackets, the network analysis and forensics software company. Click Here to...

Tags: WildPackets, Amazon.com Inc., Analysis, Amazon Kindle, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-10

News to know: iPhone; Google; SAP; Oracle; IBM-Sun

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: WSJ: IBM in talks to buy Sun Privacy group to FTC: Google's cloud is unsafe ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Sales, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Spotlight on Austin: Click Forensics' Steve O'Brien

Click Forensics is the center of part four of my Spotlight on Austin series, which highlights creative Austin-based companies who are participating in South By Southwest Interactive SXSWi. The company was launched in early 2006 to fight click fraud in online CPC advertising campaigns. Click Forensics scores, audits and aims...

Tags: Innovation, Advertisement, Austin, Online Advertising, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-03-17

The Real World of Real Customers: Click Forensics Solves the Security Mystery

The presenter will give an insider's perspective on the trials and tribulations of the industry leader in online traffic quality management establishing effective business processes around IT security. The attendee will learn from what went right during their early security experiences, and more importantly, what went wrong. The attendee will...

Tags: CoreTrace, Security

Webcasts 2009-01-01

Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...

Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

How to recover GPcode encrypted files?

Got backups? In response to the security community's comments on the futile attempt to directly attack the 1024 bit RSA keys using distributed computing, Kaspersky Labs are now reasonably recommending that affected end users lacking backups of their encrypted data, take advantage of data recovery tools : Currently, it's...

Tags: Data Recovery, Backup, Malware, File, GPcode, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door"

Techdirt's Mike Masnick is usually pretty reliable, but he completely blew it today, hitting the publish button on one of the sloppiest, most inflammatory stories I've seen in a long time: Microsoft Gives Vista Backdoor Keys To The Police It's long been assumed that Microsoft has...

Tags: Security, Password, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Encryption, USB, Tool, Computer, CrunchGear, USB Switchblade, Productivity, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-29

The next big thing? Crimeware-as-a-service

Finjan says Crimeware-as-a-Service CaaS is becoming an increasing problem and the ability of law enforcement to track malicious hackers will become increasingly hampered. On Monday, Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center MCRC released its first quarter Web security trends report registration required and highlighted CaaS. finjan's release is...

Tags: Finjan Software Inc., CaaS, Security, Productivity, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Small outage at Salesforce.com, not many upset

Compared to the furore that used to greet Salesforce.com outages, yesterday's problems on three of its eight instances â€" including one of the five North American instances â€" has aroused little ire [disclosure: Salesforce.com is a client]. eWeek's coverage illustrates how difficult it is to stir up...

Tags: Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Click fraud origins: India - 4.3%, Germany - 3.9%, South Korea - 3.7%

In Q4 2007 the greatest percentage of click fraud originating from countries outside North America came from India (4.3%) Germany (3.9%) and South Korea (3.7%), according to Click Forensics. The average click fraud rate of PPC advertisements appearing on search engine content networks (such as Google AdSense and the Yahoo...

Tags: Click Fraud, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-07

Click fraud at 16.6% in Q4 2007

The overall click fraud rate for the pay-per-click PPC industry averaged 16.6% in Q4 2007, and the rate of click fraud for all of 2007 was up 15% over 2006 levels, according to Click Forensics. The overall industry average click fraud rate rose to 16.6% for Q4 2007. That’s up...

Tags: Click Fraud, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-07

Do you know what's leaking out of your browser?

Information seeping out of your Web browser could provide a gold mine for hackers doing reconnaissance for targeted attacks.At the ToorCon Seattle beta conference, Web application security specialist Robert Hansen RSnake demoed Mr-T (Master Recon-Tool), a new utility that combines information disclosure flaws in Internet Explorer and Firefox to collect...

Tags: Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Black Hat, Google, Hackers, Metasploit, Microsoft, Open source, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Privacy, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Vulnerability research, Wi-Fi security, Zero-day attacks

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth preview

Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth previewStunning what!another lock-in product that works only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Me2I am at a loss for words...Let me just say here a big and enthusiast WOW!Truely amazing.Of course the bashers will be along soon to tell us they can do it on Linux...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

Click Fraud: Yahoo pledges quality, what about audits?

Click Fraud: Yahoo pledges quality, what about audits?3rd Party Click Fraud Audits -- Why ?3rd Party Click Fraud audit requests have been an ongoing topic of discussion for nearly 5 years now, since Click Fraud was first discovered by Click Defense, Inc. The news of Click Fraud just...

Tags: click fraud, audit, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-28