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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Another report about shady behavior
Hot on the heals of yesterday’s report about Atrivo by Jart Armin, there is a new report by security research group KnujOn investigating what appear to be some shady business practices by the Directi Group: In our continuing effort to … Continue reading
Tagged directi, knujon, stopbadware
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Report calls out Atrivo (Intercage) and affiliates
Jart Armin, StopBadware.org community volunteer and intrepid security researcher, released a report today that concludes that Intercage and Atrivo, a California-based family of companies that operate web hosting, domain registration, and other online services, are a hub of badware … Continue reading
Tagged atrivo, community, stopbadware
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When friends can be your worst enemies
Think a friend’s latest post on your Facebook wall is a little odd? Trust your instincts. Social engineering scams are on the rise. The latest round of attacks on Facebook include messages and comments on users’ walls that appear to … Continue reading
Tagged facebook, msn, myspace, socialengineering
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Top infected IP addresses for mid-August
In addition to the updated list of “infected network blocks”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/08/25/top-infected-network-blocks-for-mid-august that we just posted, we also offer this list of the top 10 infected IP addresses: |_.# of badware sites |_.IP address |_.AS block name | |2778|72.14.207.191| GOOGLE – Google … Continue reading
Tagged stats, stopbadware
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Top infected network blocks for mid-August
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. In July, we released “an udpate”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/07/30/updated-infection-stats. Here is another update from mid-August: |_.# of badware … Continue reading
Draft guidelines for public comment
Periodically, we update our Badware Guidelines to reflect what we have learned from the community and from our work. We have recently put together “a draft”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/files/Badware_Guidelines_for_Software_ver_2_draft.pdf of our new guidelines for software, and we’d like your feedback. Please let us … Continue reading
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Badware panel at IT Security World
Oliver Day, our lead security researcher, will be facilitating a panel at the “IT Security World Conference & Expo”:http://www.misti.com/default.asp?Page=65&Return=70&ProductID=7154 in San Franscisco on September 14. bq. Moderated by StopBadware.org’s Oliver Day, four of today’s greatest information security visionaries will gather … Continue reading
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Mac attack
Sandi over at the Spyware Sucks blog “pointed”:http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/08/15/1644705.aspx to “this thread”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7768848 on Apple’s Mac forums, indicating that some Mac users have been victims of a web-based malware attack: bq. This has happened to me twice now, on two separate computers … Continue reading
Tagged apple, linux, mac, stopbadware
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Serious Internet Explorer vulnerability
Symantec “describes”:https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?message.uid=341705 a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows a website with malicious content to install a Microsoft-signed ActiveX control and then exploit a known vulnerability in that control: bq. Because the control is Microsoft signed, its installation is silent, … Continue reading
Tagged ie, microsoft, stopbadware
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Apple keeps mum
The other day, Rob Pegoraro at the Washington Post wrote “a column”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/07/ST2008080700649.html?sid=ST2008080700649&pos=top about Apple’s tendency to keep its mouth shut rather than communicating with customers: bq. The Cupertino, Calif., corporation provides some of the best tech support in the business … Continue reading
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