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Tag Archives: badware
Building a better Clearinghouse
This month, StopBadware started a pilot project to explore what a new, expanded Badware Website Clearinghouse might look like. Our idea is to create a collaborative platform that aggregates and makes available extensive data and metadata about badware URLs and … Continue reading
Malware reporting study: more infomation leads to higher cleanup rate
I’m Marie Vasek, a computer science and mathematics student at Wellesley College and the resident testing intern at StopBadware. When a website is on one of our data providers’ malware blacklists and a person responsible for the site asks StopBadware … Continue reading
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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Tagged badware, blacklists, StopBadware Partners, StopTheHacker, webmaster tips
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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
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
Supporting a voluntary code for ISPs
Earlier this week, we submitted comments in response to a request for information from the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security. The topic was development of a voluntary code of conduct for industry, particularly ISPs, to help address botnets. … Continue reading
Tagged badware, isp, malware, policy
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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
Tagged badware, malware, stopbadware, webhost, website
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Why Finland has so little malware
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
StopBadware introduces We Stop Badware™ program for web hosting providers
For some time now, StopBadware has advocated for increased focus on web hosting providers’ role in protecting customers, Internet users, and the Web as a whole from badware. Last week at HostingCon, StopBadware launched the We Stop Badwareâ„¢ Web Host … Continue reading
Summer reading
For those looking for some quality summer reading about badware, I recommend the following recent articles: The Perfect Scam by David Talbot at Technology Review (aimed at a general audience) Fake Antivirus Industry Down, But Not Out by Brian Krebs … Continue reading
