Monthly Archives: June 2010

WEIS Recap: Review of “Might Governments Clean Up Malware?”

Richard Clayton wrote on the more interesting papers presented at WEIS.  In his paper “Might Government Clean Up Malware” [pdf] he suggests some possible goverment intervention to aid consumers in cleaning up their computers.  His paper explains the reasons as … Continue reading

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Australian ISPs on the right track

In early June, the Australian Internet Industry Association, an ISP industry trade group, published icode [PDF], a voluntary code of conduct for ISPs to follow to better fight bots on their networks. Like the previously-mentioned IETF draft, this document lays … Continue reading

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Recent spikes in badware reports

We have generally seen an increase in the number of badware URLs reported by our data providers lately, but in the past few weeks, we’ve seen unusually big spikes on three autonomous systems (simplifying slightly, an AS is a set … Continue reading

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StopBadware welcomes a new board member

StopBadware is pleased to announce that Paul Mockapetris will join our board of directors. Mockapetris created the Domain Name System (DNS), an essential part of today’s Internet infrastructure, in the 1980s. He is now the Chief Scientist and Chairman of … Continue reading

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Thoughts on WEIS 2010

Earlier this week I sat in on the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security.  One of the more lively research papers presented was on insecurities in the online pornography industry.  The paper [0] has also been written about by … Continue reading

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