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Tag Archives: stopbadware
Design our new website!
We’re looking for an experienced design professional to design our new website. Please share the request for proposals (RFP) with any outstanding web designers that you know!
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
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
Posted in Research and publications
Tagged commtouch, Compromised websites, security tips, stopbadware, webmasters
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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
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged awareness, malware, security, stopbadware, warnings, webmaster education
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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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged awareness, blacklist operators, communications, stopbadware, webmaster education
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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
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
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
