Monthly Archives: September 2011

Why Finland has so little malware

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Maxim Weinstein

Tim Rains from Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group recently posted an excellent series of short blog posts titled Lessons from Some of the Least Malware Infected Countries in the World. Tim asked local security experts in each of these countries why … Continue reading →

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What’s in a name?

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Maxim Weinstein

One of the most interesting aspects of yesterday’s announcement of another botnet takedown engineered by Microsoft was the naming of the owners of the .cz.cc domain in their lawsuit. …this case highlights an industry-wide problem pertaining to the use of … Continue reading →

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Last chance to submit feedback on new best practices for reporting badware URLs

Posted on September 12, 2011 by ccondon

Several weeks ago, we put out a request for comments to anyone who might have feedback on our newly developed best practices for reporting badware URLs. As a reminder, we’ll be accepting comments on the new best practices until  this … Continue reading →

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Observations from StopBadware’s first foray into reporting

Posted on September 2, 2011 by ccondon

As we mentioned last week, we have a full and public draft of a new best practices document for reporting badware URLs. You may also be aware that StopBadware receives a feed of badware URLs reported by members of our … Continue reading →

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