Monthly Archives: January 2012

Bridging the awareness gap: the need for better communications in the anti-malware space (Part 2)

This is the second half of a two-part blog post. For exposition, see “Bridging the awareness gap: the need for better communications in the anti-malware space (Part 1).” One person who read The New York Times’ first piece on Dr. … Continue reading

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Bridging the awareness gap: the need for better communications in the anti-malware space (Part 1)

Recently, The New York Times published a story chronicling a webmaster’s fight with Google over a security warning Google had issued about his website. The main character in this story, Dr. Robert Epstein, woke up one day to a slew of … Continue reading

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State of the Net 2012: It’s SOPA, But Not Just SOPA

It was my privilege to spend Tuesday in Washington, DC for the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee‘s State of the Net Conference 2012, which definitely reflected the degree to which PROTECT-IP and SOPA loom large over the American Internet policy … Continue reading

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StopBadware welcomes SiteLock as first new partner of 2012

2012 is well underway, and we’re kicking it off with another new partner: We extend the warmest of welcomes to SiteLock LLC, a leading provider of website security and website malware scanning services, and a company with whom we’re very … Continue reading

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New blog platform

Thanks to the work of our determined developer, Matt, and our talented technologist, Isaac, our blog migrated today to a new server and new blogging platform. As a result, our RSS feed may repeat a bunch of recent items. Sorry … Continue reading

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2011 Staff Reflections: Tech Policy Wish List

2011 saw the U.S. Congress finally begin the task of explicitly addressing cybersecurity (as a general matter) through legislation, rather than foisting the responsibility on executive agencies like the FCC with little explicit statutory mandates. Regrettably, the two signature pieces … Continue reading

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