Monthly Archives: January 2011

The rise of digital collateral damage

Stuxnet has been in the news a lot lately, as it appears to have been an effective case of cyberespionage against a high-profile and high-stakes target: Iran’s nuclear processing facilities. Much of the focus in articles such as this New … Continue reading

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Request for comments on new best practices

We announced a while back that we were increasing our focus on web hosting providers with an eye to addressing some of the inconsistency within the industry about how to respond to malware reports. For the last several months, we’ve … Continue reading

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StopBadware compiles Badware Events Calendar

One of our resolutions this year is to find as many innovative ways as possible to engage users and the industry in the fight against badware. With that goal in mind, we’ve compiled the Badware Events Calendar: our calendar contains … Continue reading

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StopBadware announces an unconventional T-shirt design contest

Attention, graphic designers, wordsmiths, and previously undiscovered doodlers: StopBadware is having a T-shirt design contest! We’ve been racking our collective badware-busting brain this past week to come up with a great StopBadware T-shirt design. After much arm wrestling, chest beating, … Continue reading

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Smartphones need better security safeguards

Are smartphone users more susceptible to phishing attacks than computer users? It would appear so, based on this recent case study posted by Trusteer CEO Mickey Boodaei. Trusteer looked at the log files of several phished sites and found that … Continue reading

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StopBadware to update Software Guidelines

When StopBadware started several years ago, we collaborated with the community and our Applications Working Group to formulate a set of badware guidelines for applications. For the past few years, our Software Guidelines have served us well: they have acted … Continue reading

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