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ABCs for ISPs

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Maxim Weinstein

Today, an important step was taken in the fight against badware on consumer devices in the U.S. An advisory group to the Federal Communications Commission known as CSRIC III voted unanimously to release the U.S. Anti-Bot Code of Conduct for … Continue reading →

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Supporting a voluntary code for ISPs

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Maxim Weinstein

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 →

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Australian ISPs on the right track

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Maxim Weinstein

In early June, the Australian Internet Industry Association, an ISP industry trade group, published icode [PDF], a voluntary code of conduct for ISPs to follow to better fight bots on their networks. Like the previously-mentioned IETF draft, this document lays … Continue reading →

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ISPs and the fight against bots

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Maxim Weinstein

For the last several months, some of the folks at Comcast have been working on a draft IETF document to inform ISPs about the role they can play in remediating bots on their customers’ computers. This is a tricky challenge: … Continue reading →

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Advertising Practices Endanger Internet Users

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Laureli Mallek

Several major ISPs are substituting ad pages for the error messages normally displayed when users navigate to non-existing subdomains. Ryan Singel “writes in Wired”:http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/isps-error-page.html that: bq. “The rub comes when a user is asking for a nonexistent subdomain of a … Continue reading →

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