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Openness versus consumer protection? Android, iPhone, and transparency

If you follow news about the Android mobile phone platform, you may have seen recent allegations of malware against a third party application available on Google’s Android application market. It’s unclear whether or not the application in question, MemoryUp, was … Continue reading

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Open and transparent malware filtering

StopBadware’s manager, Maxim Weinstein, has a “guest editorial”:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1470 today in ZDNet’s Zero Day security blog. The editorial urges more transparency in malware filtering by anti-virus companies, search engines, and web browsers. Maxim argues that a good filtering system should have: … Continue reading

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See the top pages in our Clearinghouse

One of the most popular resources at StopBadware is our Badware Website Clearinghouse, which has information about websites that have been reported as potentially harmful by one of our partners. The Clearinghouse pages for websites that Google has flagged also … Continue reading

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