Tag Archives: stopbadware

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

Posted on January 23, 2012 by ccondon

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

Posted on January 18, 2012 by ccondon

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

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Maxim Weinstein

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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StopBadware’s 2011 Checklist

Posted on December 29, 2011 by ccondon

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!

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Maxim Weinstein

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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Collaborative survey on compromised websites

Posted on November 23, 2011 by ccondon

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.

Posted on November 3, 2011 by ccondon

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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New best practices for reporting badware URLs

Posted on October 7, 2011 by ccondon

We’re happy to announce today the public release of our second best practices document: Best Practices for Reporting Badware URLs. These best practices lay out steps that individuals and organizations can follow to effectively report badware URLs to the parties … Continue reading →

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Last chance to submit feedback on new best practices for reporting badware URLs

Posted on September 12, 2011 by ccondon

Several weeks ago, we put out a request for comments to anyone who might have feedback on our newly developed best practices for reporting badware URLs. As a reminder, we’ll be accepting comments on the new best practices until  this … Continue reading →

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Observations from StopBadware’s first foray into reporting

Posted on September 2, 2011 by ccondon

As we mentioned last week, we have a full and public draft of a new best practices document for reporting badware URLs. You may also be aware that StopBadware receives a feed of badware URLs reported by members of our … Continue reading →

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