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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Updated infection stats
In June we released “a report”:http://www.stopbadware.org/home/badwebs with numbers from late May, showing the network blocks containing the largest numbers of badware sites reported by Google. Here are updated numbers from early July: |_.# of badware sites |_.AS block name | … Continue reading
Tagged aol, endurance, google, stats, stopbadware
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IBM and Websense Release Reports on Internet Safety-Status
“Websense”:http://www.websense.com and “IBM”:http://www.ibm.com released security reports this week covering topics from spam to research on the impact of publicizing software vulnerabilities. In his Security Fix blog post, Brian Krebs continues his coverage on “badware distribution”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/75_percent_of_malicious_web_si_1.html, prompted by the release of … Continue reading
Does Phorm violate its own privacy policy?
Our Berkman colleague, Hal Roberts, “notes”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hroberts/2008/07/25/ernst-young-audit-overlooks-phorms-violation-of-its-own-privacy-policy/ that Phorm (an ISP-based advertising system that has “raised some eyebrows with regard to consumer privacy”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/06/internet.privacy) may violate its own privacy policy: bq. In fact, in a couple of hours of looking at the … Continue reading
Tagged advertising, frontporch, nebuad, phorm, privacy, stopbadware
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China has a whole lot of Internet users
According to “a story at Wired.com”:http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_INTERNET_BOOM?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-07-25-02-43-59, Internet use in China is soaring: bq. China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to … Continue reading
Tagged china, malware, stopbadware
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Outsource that Email Hack
Dancho Danchev has “blogged”:http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/04/crimeware-in-middle-zeus.html “repeatedly”:http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/04/outsourcing-spying-on-your-wife.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive10&action=toggle&dir=close&toggle=MONTHLY-1214863200000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1214863200000,MONTHLY-1212271200000 about the commercilization of badware producers, and this week he mentioned another example: “outsourced email hacking”:http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/07/email-hacking-going-commercial.html. The hackers-for-hire promise that their seven-step process, from submitting the information of the would-be victim to proof of execution … Continue reading
iPhone users should beware of mail links
Aviv Raff, a security researcher, released “an advisory”:http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/07/23/iPhoneIsPhishableAndSPAMable.aspx indicating that the iPhone is vulnerable to a URL spoofing attack. bq. By creating a specially crafted URL, and sending it via an email, an attacker can convince the user that the … Continue reading
Tagged apple, iphone, stopbadware
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New design for the StopBadware.org site
After two and a half years in operation, we’ve decided to give our website a bit of a facelift. Our “new design”:http://stopbadware.org features improved navigation, making it easier to find what you’re looking for – from our software alerts to … Continue reading
Tagged redesign, stopbadware
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Report: U.S. registrars won’t take down illegal steroid sites
The folks at KnujOn teamed up with watchdog site LegitScript to put together “a report”:http://legitscript.com/newsitems/show/10 about websites selling anabolic steroids illegally. They found that, although the site owners themselves may be outside the U.S., they are using U.S.-based domain registrars, … Continue reading
Tagged knujon, registrars, stopbadware
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The ZlobFather
Ars Technica “reports”:http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080716-report-cybercrime-groups-starting-to-operate-like-the-mafia.html on a recent report by security vendor Finjan, describing how criminal malware groups are getting more organized, much like the Mafia in The Godfather or the drug gangs in The Wire: bq. Finjan describes the employee structure … Continue reading
Tagged malware, stopbadware
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Commtouch: Zombie PCs are everywhere
A “new report”:http://www.commtouch.com/documents/Commtouch_Q208_Email_Trends.pdf [pdf] from Commtouch, an e-mail security vendor, indicates that “zombies” (PCs infected with bots that send spam and malware) are geographically much more dispersed than “we found”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/06/24/china-hosts-majority-of-badware-sites infected websites to be. Turkey led the world by a … Continue reading
Tagged commtouch, stats, stopbadware
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