Monthly Archives: December 2010

StopBadware’s 2010 Checklist

Posted on December 30, 2010 by ccondon

As the end of 2010 approaches, we at StopBadware are taking stock of what we’ve accomplished during our first year as a standalone organization. Here are a few of the ways we’ve worked with our partners and the community to … Continue reading →

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Great report on DDoS attacks

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Maxim Weinstein

A group at the Berkman Center—led by StopBadware's co-founder and Board member emeritus, John Palfrey—just released a great report about the impact of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the websites of independent media and human rights organizations. From … Continue reading →

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A Novel Legal Tool in the Fight Against Botnets

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Maxim Weinstein

The following is a guest blog post by David Kleban, a Fall 2010 Cyberlaw Clinic Student at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Significant amounts of spam, malware, and phishing scams are propagated via botnets—networks of … Continue reading →

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