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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Happy Halloween from StopBadware
For some Halloween fun, check out InfoWorld reporter Matt Hines’ blog post today on geeky “costume” ideas for the hackers, coders, and badware-fighters in your life. Matt also shares some costume ideas from F-Secure of ways badware programs themselves have … Continue reading
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StopBadware hosts Spyware Roundtable in DC
Yesterday, StopBadware hosted a Spyware Roundtable conversation in Washington, DC, gathering leaders in spyware research and policy to discuss emerging trends and potential remedies to badware threats. With Federal Trade Commissioner Jon Leibowitz in attendance, much of the conversation centered … Continue reading
Congratulations, Cookie Crumbles Finalists!
The cameras have been put away, the frenzied video editing is complete, and out of 24 official entries, the five finalists for the Cookie Crumbles contest have been chosen. The contest challenged video creators to explain what web cookies are … Continue reading
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Is your website at risk? Probably.
This week Matt Hines and Victor Garza quoted a study from WhiteHat Security which stated that 90 percent of all sites one the web are at risk for being hacked. If that’s true, it would certainly help explain what StopBadware … Continue reading
Cookie contest deadline extended
The Cookie Crumbles contest deadline has been extended! The contest to make a short YouTube video that explains web cookies to average internet users will now remain open to 11:59 pm Pacific time on Sunday, October 21. If you’ve been … Continue reading
Tagged contest, cookiecrumbles, cookies
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Guest post: BadMal on “Man-in-the-Middle Exploits; what they are and how to STOP them”
StopBadware volunteer BadMal has been tracking a type of exploit that can affect sites on shared hosting services, and helping users in StopBadware’s discussion group learn about keeping their sites and computers clean. He graciously offered to share his analysis … Continue reading
Tagged badmal, defense, exploits, guestposts, maninthemiddle, mitm
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Announcing the Cookie Crumbles Contest!
StopBadware and our parent organization, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, are hosting an online video contest to help explain web cookies to average internet users. Help answer these common cookies questions: * What is … Continue reading
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“Trends” report encourages caution; users need not panic
Our “Trends in Badware 2007″ report, released yesterday, has been picked up in a variety of blogs and news articles. Reading through some of the coverage, a web user or site owner could be tempted to panic. After all, if … Continue reading
Tagged analysis, press, stopbadware, trends
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“Trends in Badware 2007″ released
StopBadware is proud to release our 2007 update on the state of badware on the web – “Trends in Badware 2007: What internet users need to know.” The short report is a plain-English explanation of badware threats to user privacy … Continue reading
Tagged badware, consumer, education, stopbadware
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