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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Microsoft bug denial reportedly leads to exploit
A researcher from security firm Kaspersky “reportedly claims”:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1361 that he told Microsoft of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer “a long time ago,” but Microsoft didn’t consider it a security issue. Now, he claims he has found an example of an … Continue reading
Tagged ie, microsoft, stopbadware, vulnerability
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No such thing as a guaranteed safe site
When I talk to friends about web-based badware, one of the most frequent things I hear is a version of “Oh, I don’t have to worry about that – I don’t go to any sketchy sites.” The security world has … Continue reading
Reinterpreting the Disclosure Debate for Web Infections
Today, StopBadware.org staff Oliver Day and Brandon Palmen, along with affiliated Harvard researcher Rachel Greenstadt, presented research at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, held at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. A final version of … Continue reading
Tagged research, stopbadware
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Internet Public Health
Over on “my own Harvard blog”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/maxim, I’ve started a “series of posts”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/maxim/category/publichealth/ about my foray into the field of public health and how it relates to the malware world. If you’re interested, please read along and post your thoughts in … Continue reading
Tagged publichealth, stopbadware
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New vulnerability found in IE6
Ryan Naraine over at the Zero Day Blog “reports”:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1348 that a new vulnerability has been found in Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows XP with service pack 2 or 3: bq. An unpatched cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft’s flagship Internet Explorer … Continue reading
Tagged ie, microsoft, stopbadware, vulnerability
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Global Issues Survey
StopBadware.org is a member of the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), and I’m currently serving on the ASC’s “global issues subgroup.” The group’s purpose is to try to understand how spyware and other malware are viewed by consumers in other countries. We’ve … Continue reading
Tagged asc, international, stopbadware, surveys
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Naraine: Apple Software Update still badware
ZDNet blogger Ryan Naraine “called us to task”:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1335 today for not calling Apple Software Update badware. Last month, we “stopped short”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/04/17/apple-responds-to-community-concerns of labeling the application badware after Apple made changes to improve the disclosure of applications that were installed under … Continue reading
Tagged apple, guidelines, stopbadware
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China Hosts Majority of Badware Sites
StopBadware.org today released a “report”:http://www.stopbadware.org/pdfs/StopBadware_Infected_Sites_Report_062408.pdf analyzing over 200,000 sites reported by Google as exhibiting badware behavior. !http://blogs.stopbadware.org/files/BadwareSitesMay2008.jpg! See the “press release”:http://www.stopbadware.org/home/pr_062408 and/or the “report”:http://www.stopbadware.org/pdfs/StopBadware_Infected_Sites_Report_062408.pdf for more information. We attempted to contact the owners of the top 10 infected network blocks … Continue reading
Tagged china, reports, stopbadware
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Trojan Horses Nip at Apple Vulnerabilities
Software company Intego found this “Mac Trojan”:http://www.intego.com/news/ism0803.asp masquerading as a poker game. The Trojan actually transmits the user’s name, password, and IP address to an external server which it acquires through clever social engineering: bq. “A corrupt preference file has … Continue reading
Apple Fixes Safari Vulnerability on Windows
About a month ago, we “questioned Apple”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/05/19/safari-security-questioned-sbw-encourages-action for characterizing a Safari security vulnerability as a “feature” issue, not a security issue. This issue got “further attention”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/06/12/safari-vulnerability-now-a-blended-flavor when Microsoft announced that the Safari vulnerability combined with a Windows vulnerability could lead … Continue reading
Tagged apple, microsoft, safari, stopbadware, windows
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