Monthly Archives: December 2011

StopBadware’s 2011 Checklist

Last year, we posted a checklist of key accomplishments in our first year as a standalone organization. Our 2010 checklist included a lot of numbers—like the millions of users and webmasters who learned about badware via our educational pages or … Continue reading

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Come work for StopBadware!

StopBadware has an opening for an experienced software developer with Ruby on Rails and MySQL expertise! See the full job description here, and please share it with anyone you know in the Boston/Cambridge area that might be interested!

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A Nightmare Before Christmas

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the house Not a sound could be heard, ‘cept the click of a mouse; The browser was open to Facebook, where else? As friends posted updates about kittens and elves; The children … Continue reading

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Cybersecurity data sharing: you’re doing it wrong

One aspect of cybersecurity that StopBadware routinely emphasizes as essential to collective defense against malware is data sharing. As we’ve pointed out in the past, there are few incentives favoring, and many opposing, the sharing of malware attack-related data among … Continue reading

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PROTECT-IP, SOPA, and the real threat to national security

A substantial portion of the broader technology policy community has stepped up its efforts to raise awareness of the current debate surrounding the PROTECT-IP Act, pending in the Senate, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), pending in the House. … Continue reading

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StopBadware gains two new Partners: Sophos and Tucows

It’s December already! We’re not really sure how that happened, but we have good news to share, so we’ll postpone our calendar confusion. Over the past year and change, we’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of distinguished … Continue reading

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