Google is blaming “human error” for today’s search results screw-up that flagged the entire Web as serving up malicious code.
But the company’s explanation, detailed in a blog post by VP of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer incorrectly linked StopBadware.org to the glitch, causing major problems for the non-profit group.
StopBadware, which is run by [...]
The software purveyor behind AntiVirus XP, a fake anti-virus package, has been sued and will hopefully be put out of business.
There has been plenty of information available on this organization for some time, yet unsuspecting consumers continue to hand over their own money for what amounts to malware. Alex Eckelberry at Sunbelt Software has [...]
Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 3:36 am Categories: Browsers, Vulnerability research, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Botnets, Exploit code, Viruses and Worms, Data theft, Google, Firefox, Phishing, Arbitrary Code Execution, Anti Virus, Malware Tags: China, Infection, Malware, Security, Ryan Naraine Guest editorial by Oliver Day In June 2008, StopBadware published a report with statistics (.pdf) based on our sample of infected website
StopBadware.org is a “Neighborhood Watch” campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and to become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.
