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Twitter acquires anti-malware company Dasient

Twitter brought the malware-fighting startup Dasient into its team today.

"Effective immediately, we will be bringing our technology, tools, and team to the revenue engineering team at Twitter," Dasient wrote on its blog.

This company, which specializes in malware protection and Web security, launched its Web anti-malware platform in 2009. In 2010, it debuted the first anti-malvertising service to protect sites from "malicious ads."

"By joining Twitter, Dasient will be able to apply its technology and team to the world's largest real-time information network," Dasient wrote on its blog. "As part of … Read more

Report: Malware-laden sites double from a year ago

More than 1 million Web sites were believed to be infected with malware in the fourth quarter of last year, nearly double from the previous year, according to figures released today by Dasient.

Malvertising, advertising containing malware, also is on the rise, with impressions doubling to 3 million per day from the third quarter of 2010, Dasient said in a blog post.

"The probability that an average Internet user will hit an infected page after three months of Web browsing is 95 percent," the company said.

The news corresponds with information released this week by another security firm. … Read more

Report: Infected Web sites double in 2010

The number of Web sites infected with malware has doubled from a year ago to more than 1.2 million, according to a study released today by Internet security company Dasient.

Not only are social-media sites getting targeted, but sites of larger government agencies increasingly are hit, including the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Treasury, and the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the report. In the last two years, the NIH has been infected and reinfected five times, and the state of Alabama's site was infected 37 times.

More than 1.5 million malicious ads are served … Read more

Firms tackle virus-laden Web sites, ads

Taiwan-based Armorize knows something about keeping malware off Web sites.

Four years ago, Wayne Huang left his job researching ways to help secure the Taiwanese government's networks from attacks. He and his brother, Matt Huang, a Stanford MBA graduate, decided to commercialize the research and launched Armorize, which became an anti-malware leader in Asia.

Now the company is taking its malware expertise to the United States. This week, Armorize announced it is moving its headquarters to San Francisco while keeping most of its research and development in Taipei. Armorize also is announcing a new version of its cloud-based service … Read more

Web-based malware infections rise rapidly, stats show

The number of Web sites hosting malicious software, either intentionally or unwittingly, is rising rapidly, according to statistics to be released on Tuesday from Dasient.

More than 640,000 Web sites and about 5.8 million pages are infected with malware, according to Dasient, which was founded by former Googlers to offer services to help Web sites stay malware-free and off blacklists.

That figure for infected pages is nearly double what Microsoft estimated in a report in April.

Meanwhile, the Google blacklist of malware infected sites has more than doubled in the last year, registering as many as 40,000 … Read more

Dasient helps Web sites avoid blacklists, malware

Last week, PBWorks founder David Weekly found out from some customers that his hosted collaboration site had been blacklisted by Symantec for hosting malware and, thus, visitors to any of the 10 million pages on PBWorks were being warned that the site wasn't safe.

"(Damn) you, Norton Safe Web. Whenever one file on one PBWorks space has a virus, all of PBworks is marked unsafe?!" a frustrated Weekly wrote on Twitter and Facebook on Thursday. In a follow-up interview, he said: "That's tarnishing our brand. It's not legitimate to basically poison the whole domain … Read more