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Monthly Archives: December 2007
StopBadware Closed for Winter Break
Due to Harvard University’s winter break, StopBadware will be closed from Friday, December 21 to Wednesday, January 2. During this time, we urge website owners whose sites have been flagged with Google’s malware warnings to request reviews of their sites … Continue reading
Tagged google, reviews, stopbadware-
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The Twelve Days of Badware
On the twelfth day of Badware a hacker sent to me: Twelve Trojan horses Eleven hidden iframes Ten worms a-spreading Nine spywares spying Eight popups popping Seven secret botnets Six stolen passwords Five viruses Four fake codecs Three rootkits Two … Continue reading
Tagged humor, stopbadware
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New landing pages for websites with warnings
StopBadware’s most important mission is helping to educate internet users about badware threats and how to protect themselves. One of the biggest ways users tend to find us is through our partnership with Google, and the warning pages Google places … Continue reading
Tagged stopbadware
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Debating the ethics of online ads
A Danish member of the StopBadware discussion group has highlighted a disturbing outbreak of ad-driven malware on the websites of Danish media companies over the past several days. Cometcom1 posted that within several days, the affected websites were cleaned up, … Continue reading
Tagged adnetworks, ads, discussiongroup, thirdpartycontent
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IPOWER responds to latest threat
A LiveJournal blogger, tacit, recently discovered that several iPowerWeb-hosted sites were affected by a malware attack. Visitors to the sites were redirected to malware-installing sites based in eastern Europe. Several months ago, iPowerWeb was included in StopBadware’s report of hosting … Continue reading
Tagged ipower, ipowerweb, malware, stopbadware
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Beware of Scrooges
In many parts of the world, the holiday season is a time of joy and happiness. Sadly, though, many criminals and cranks take advantage of the season’s spirit to prey on unsuspecting internet users. Last year, we posted about Santa’s … Continue reading
Tagged holidays, malware, phishing, stopbadware
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StopBadware discussion group hits 1000
The past week saw membership in StopBadware’s discussion group hit the 1,000 mark, a fitting milestone as StopBadware approaches our 2nd anniversary early next year. The discussion group has served as an open platform for questions, concerns, ideas, and mutual … Continue reading
Tagged community, stopbadware
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FTC forces pornographic ad pusher to clean up
The FTC this week reached a settlement with the owners of AdultFriendFinder.com over misuse of pornographic pop-up ads. The ads covered users’ full screens and showed pornographic content to users of search engines, including many who had never requested an … Continue reading
Tagged ads, adware, enforcement, ftc, pornography
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Facebook responds to privacy concerns, but some still remain
Social networking site Facebook has been on the defensive lately for a variety of poor privacy and dislosure related decisions about its Beacon application. Beacon, which is turned on by default for Facebook users, allows users to update their Facebook … Continue reading
Tagged facebook, privacy, stopbadware
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To search spammers, even death is a badware opportunity
The Bits blog at the New York Times yesterday highlighted a disturbing twist to a common spammer practice. Search engine spam, or spamdexing, involves spammers gaming search engine results by creating pages that pretend to have useful content, often based … Continue reading
