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Joint StopBadware-Commtouch report explores site compromise from the owner’s perspective

Late last year, we talked with security firm Commtouch about gaps in the collective security community’s knowledge of badware websites. Specifically, we wondered about legitimate websites that are compromised and abused by malicious actors. For instance: Are certain kinds of … Continue reading

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5 reasons why websites are hacked and blacklisted

The following is a guest post by StopTheHacker, a provider of website security services and a StopBadware Partner. Members from StopTheHacker are also active participants on StopBadware’s community forum, BadwareBusters.org. They, and other experts on the forum, give webmasters advice … Continue reading

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StopBadware partners with StopTheHacker, Arbor Networks

It’s of the utmost importance to us that we try to provide a variety of perspectives and fresh content via this blog. We’ll be the first to admit, however, that redundancy is sometimes cause for rejoicing. In this case, “sometimes” … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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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Collaborative survey on compromised websites

If you've been following us this past week, you may have seen a few blips about a survey we're conducting together with Commtouch on compromised websites. It's fairly common knowledge at this point that legitimate websites are frequently compromised by … Continue reading

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20 providers. 10 countries. 5 continents. 1 goal.

Two months after its launch in August, our We Stop Badware™ Web Host program has garnered 20 hosting providers from around the world who have pledged to protect their networks and their customers by responding decisively to badware reports. We’re … Continue reading

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