Archive for the 'Badware' Category

• 7.11.07 Badware Hosting Companies posted in Badware, Security

  Following some POC analysis, stopbadware.org issued a press release of analysis of the badware URLs in their database.

  StopBadware.org analyzed 49,296 sites - sites submitted by trusted third parties to the StopBadware.org Badware Website Clearinghouse - and identified the following web hosting companies with the largest number of infected sites residing on their servers:
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• 3.26.07 Badware URL Analysis posted in Badware, Security

  One of the projects I am affiliated with in an advisory capacity is the Berkman Center’s StopBadware.org project. Over the weekend (2007-03-25) I scraped and analyzed the 18328 badware URLs from StopBadware.org’s Badware Website Clearinghouse, a “a collaborative effort to build a comprehensive list of websites that host, link to, or otherwise distribute badware”. The [...]