Tag: stopbadware.org
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Google Groups and Blogspot used to serve malware
Company finds own IP address to be serving most malware. Malware writers have created thousands of Google Groups with the sole purpose of serving malware, Sunbelt reports . On the Groups pages, visitors are shown several images with explicit pornography, as well as what looks like an embedded YouTube video. However, when clicking on the…
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Almost 90% of Americans feel safe online
Users’ confidence does not match up with percentage of properly protected users. Research by StopBadware.org shows that 88% of Americans say they feel safe online, despite the current threats of phishing, spyware and other kinds of badware. Of survey participants who were under 30 – the generation that grew up with computers and the Internet…