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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Canadian Parliament considers anti-malware law
The Canadian House of Commons is considering bill C-27, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. In addition to providing civil penalties for unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) and the unauthorized interception of e-mail (man in the middle attacks), it provides for similar … Continue reading
Ascentive products removed from active alerts list
After a few months of ongoing communication with StopBadware, Ascentive (operator of the website FinallyFast.com) has released new versions of its PC SpeedScan Pro and Spyware Striker Pro products. Both appear to address all of the issues that led us … Continue reading
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Register for the ASC public workshop
Register now for the Anti-Spyware Coalition public workshop on May 19 in Washington, DC. The workshop should be excellent, with keynotes from U.S. cybersecurity chief Melissa Hathaway, Consumer’s Union security specialist Jeff Fox, and Washington Post security columnist Brian Krebs. … Continue reading
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CyberDefender removed from active alerts list
After several months of ongoing communication, CyberDefender has released a version of its flagship suite, CyberDefender Early Detection Center, that appears to address all of the issues that led us to labeling it badware. We have therefore archived the alert. … Continue reading
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Network reputations
Yesterday, some of my colleagues and I attended a talk at Harvard’s Center for Research on Computation and Society. The talk was given by Mike Collins, a network security researcher who currently works at RedJack, and it focused on the … Continue reading
Tagged reputation, stopbadware
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Gadu-Gadu spam
We were surprised this morning when we learned that StopBadware.org received over 50,000 visits from users across Poland yesterday, an increase of 69,000% from the previous day. The mystery increased as we learned that the visits were all "direct," meaning … Continue reading
Tagged poland, spam, stopbadware
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Beware fake stopbadware domains
Two fake StopBadware domains, stopbadwareorg.com and livestopbadware.org, have popped up recently. We haven’t observed malware, though both sites show an attempt at copying our badware alert layout. The only reference I’ve found to the network they’re on is at this … Continue reading
Tagged fake, stopbadware
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Microsoft releases security report
Microsoft released their fairly comprehensive Security Intelligence Report today. Among the interesting badware-related findings: Rogue security products, such as XP Antivirus 2008 and its many similarly-named variants, have increased significantly in recent months Attackers are increasingly focusing on exploiting applications … Continue reading
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RealPlayer redeemed
The folks at Real Networks, creators of RealPlayer, recently brought to our attention a new version of the software that addresses the badware concerns we raised last year. We have therefore archived our alert about RealPlayer and updated it to … Continue reading
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No fooling: Conficker, GhostNet in the news
There have been two high-profile malware stories in the news this week. The first is a report from our friends and colleagues at the University of Toronto’s Munk Center for International Studies. As reported by the New York Times: A … Continue reading
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