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- Lack of phishing attacks data sharing puts $300M at stake annually
- To share phishing URLs, or not to share? That's the rhetorical question, since sharing ultimately serves the final customer and ensures a lower average time for a phishing site to remain online. In a recently published research (The consequence of non-cooperation in the fight against phishing) Tyler Moore and Richard...
- Tags: Phishing Web Site, Data Sharing, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- EA Spore backlash could help end DRM
- Guest editorial by Oliver Day The backlash over DRM has finally started to gather serious momentum. Everyday consumers started a campaign to give the highly anticipated game Spore one-star ratings on Amazon. Thousands of Amazon users labeled Spore a poor choice because of...
- Tags: Game, Digital-rights Management, Electronic Arts Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft Codename a day: Rouge Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers Twitter's "me too" anti-spam...
- Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Office 2.0
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- New StopBadware guidelines take aim at software update bundling
- If the StopBadware coalition has its way, software updaters from Sun Microsystems see screenshot above and Apple will carry the embarrassing "badware" label. According to a draft of revamped guidelines (.pdf) from the Google-backed computer security consortium, the badware label will expand to...
- Tags: Software, Guideline, Automatic Update, Consent, Apple Inc., Software Update, Patches, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- Guest post by Oliver Day My PowerBook is in the third year of its life and has begun falling apart on a regular basis. I've had the laptop in for repair at least five times this year alone. Every time I bring my laptop...
- Tags: Password, Apple Inc., Oliver, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Zittrain explains the future of the Internet
- Oxford professor and Harvard pioneer Johnathan Zittrain came to the CBS Interactive offices in San Francisco on Tuesday to speak and sign copies of his new book "The Future of the Internet... and How to Stop It". His presentation was called Civic Technologies. ...
- Tags: Router, Technology, Zittrain, Internet, Routers & Switches, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet
- Guest editorial by Oliver Day In June 2008, StopBadware published a report with statistics (.pdf) based on our sample of infected website data from Google. In those statistics we noted that over half of the infections came from addresses originating in China. We've received some attention for...
- Tags: China, Infection, Malware, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- The key to an open, transparent malware filtering system
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Max Weinstein It's no secret that Web sites have become a medium of choice for delivering malware and soliciting personal information for criminal use. One increasingly popular approach to addressing this problem is warning...
- Tags: Malware, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
- Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most
- Yesterday, the Stopbadware.org initiative released a report entitled "May 2008 Badware Websites Report" summarizing the findings out of analyzing over 200,000 sites spreading malware. With recent data for malicious sites provided by Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Stopbadware.org also received responses from affected parties such as Google itself, The Planet, SoftLayer...
- Tags: Web, Search Engine, Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?
- How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?Zombies?"Over the years Apple users are brainwashed into zombies that will take anything Apple give them."Hmmmm...Really? Just because they're using the best alternative OS available? I beg to differ. IMHO, there are far more 'Windows'-zombies out there , and just now (with...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Digital music, SECURITY, stink, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?
- As part of my work testing exploits for the recent Safari "carpet-bombing" issue -- and the combo-threat to Windows users -- I installed Apple's flagship browser on a brand-new Windows XP machine. The installation came with Apple's automatic software updater, a very valuable tool to automate patch...
- Tags: Apple Inc., StopBadware.org Guideline, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Debunking yet another bogus malware study
- Here we go again, with yet another round of bogus reporting about the extent of malware infections in the United States. This morning I read a report by Nick Farrell of The Inquirer, which was accompanied by the screamer headline One in Four US computers infected. It links in turn to a much longer...
- Tags: Adware, OECD, Malware, Computer, Badware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Productivity, Security, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning
- Microsoft has issued a formal security advisory with a confirmation of public warnings that the Safari "carpet bombing" vulnerability presents a remote code execution threat on all supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. The pre-patch advisory from Redmond follows public pressure from the Google-backed StopBadware.org...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Apple under pressure to fix Safari 'carpet bomb' flaw
- The Google-backed StopBadware.org coalition has called on Apple to rethink its stance on whether the Safari "carpet bomb" issue reported by Nitesh Dhanjani constitutes a serious security risk. Dhanjani originally discovered than it is possible for a booby-trapped Web site to litter the user's Desktop Windows or...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Flaw, Google-backed StopBadware.org Coalition, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Instant Messaging, Cyberthreats, Internet, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- If hackers don't get you, maybe Google will
- Two weeks ago my personal blog StorageMojo was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here's how it works and tips on protecting yourself. "Don't be evil" is a pretty low bar There's been a lot of blog hacking going...
- Tags: Google Inc., Site, Hosting Company, Hacker, StorageMojo, Blogging, Security, Internet, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- Online thieves worse than 1960s Mafia
- Online thieves worse than 1960s MafiaCompletely different situationThe current situation is completely different. In the '60's the Mafia was basically a U.S. thing. Also, one reason why it had grown was J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI. Hoover was a fanatic about keeping the FBI "pristine",...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Federal government, Spam, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Mafia, Edgar Hoover
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Haute Secure 2.0
- A safe Web-surfing product, Haute Secure is out of beta and available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Founded in 2006 by former Microsoft security engineers, Haute Secure hopes to distinguish itself in a crowded field, including Grisoft Linkscanner and Finjan SecureBrowsing. Today new Web threats come not from sites...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Web browsers, hook, Haute Secure
- Product reviews 2008-03-10
- StopBadware.org: RealPlayer 10.5, 11 is badware
- StopBadware.org: RealPlayer 10.5, 11 is badwareRealplayerI don't believe that RealPlayer is badware or malware or any such thing. I have used just about every anti-virus and every anti-spyware software. None of them every mentioned anything about RealPlayer being harmful. I use it mostly everyday too, I use version 11, it...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, RealNetworks RealPlayer, RealPlayer 10.5, Stopbadware.org
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
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