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| Attack of the killer widgets? |
| January 25, 2011: “Ad widgets when compromised, can be used to spread mass malware infections across the most highly trafficked websites on the Internet.” |
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| Battling Malicious Widgets for Network Security |
| January 24, 2011: “70 percent to 80 percent of threats propagate through Web application layer attacks instead of network layer attacks, yet most of the security budget is allocated to network-layer attacks,” said Neil Daswani, CTO and co-founder of Dasient” |
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| Are Widgets Wicked? |
| January 21, 2011: “Ad widgets when compromised, can be used to spread mass malware infections across the most highly trafficked websites on the Internet,” Daswani told InternetNews.com” |
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| Botnets Make Early Splash In New Year |
| January 17, 2011: “As botnets become more common, many operators will choose to simply steal infected PCs from other operators, rather than try to build their own networks, says Neil Daswani, CTO of Dasient” |
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| Word of the Day: filch |
| January 14, 2011: “Although only a few banks are targeted, Neil Daswani, Dasient’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said, “This is an alarm bell for financial institutions” |
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| Malware in fake White House e-card steals data |
| January 5, 2011: “As we found in our Q3 malware research report, government organizations are being increasingly targeted by Web malware attacks,” Neil Daswani, chief technology officer at anti-malware services provider Dasient, told CNET. “In the Whitehouse.gov e-card incidents, we also saw significant, continued use of social engineering, and it just shows that no one is immune–even employees with top-secret clearance and those who work on cybersecurity fell for the attack” |
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| Web 2.0 Security Means Fighting Malicious Third-Party Content : Brian Prince |
| July 26, 2010: “While businesses and enterprises typically have good control over the parts of the sites that they do directly run themselves, they typically do not have as direct control over the software development life-cycle processes or other aspects of security of the third parties they use,” Daswani said. |
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| Security in the Borderless Age of the Web : Mike Vizard |
| July 26, 2010: “The challenge, noted Daswani, is for IT organizations to realize that malware providers have shifted their primary focus away from the network perimeter and the Windows operating system in favor of Web applications that are easier to exploit.” |
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| Third-Party JavaScript Leads to Malware on Web Sites: Sean Michael Kerner |
| July 26, 2010: “I’d love for Mod anti-malware to solve all the world’s problems, but at the same time I think it’s important to have different categories of defense coming from different places,” Daswani said. “It is important to look at website malware monitoring as part of a defense-in-depth strategy that works with other complementary services.” |
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| ZDNet: Research: 1.3 million malicious ads viewed daily |
| “New research released by Dasient indicates that based on their sample, 1.3 million malicious ads are viewed per day, with 59 percent of them representing drive-by downloads, followed by 41 percent of fake security software also known as scareware.” |
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| Malware infections double on Web pages |
| January 26, 2010 : “The findings suggest that Web-based infections have proven an effective form of malware distribution for criminals, Dasient co-founder Neil Daswani said.” |
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| New data shows website hacks continue to grow unabated |
| October 27, 2009 : “Of the sites compromised during the third quarter of this year, 54 percent were infected with malicious JavaScript code and 37 percent were infected with a malicious IFRAME, Neil Daswani, co-founder of Dasient, told SCMagazineUS.com on Tuesday.” |
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| What to Do If You Saw an ‘Antivirus’ Pop-Up Ad |
| September 14, 2009 : “However, it’s a good idea to to make sure you’re clean by running a (legitimate) antivirus scan just in case, since in other similar attacks, “click or not, the user could still get infected,” said Neil Daswani, a founder of Dasient.” |
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| Open Source Web Anti-Malware Tool Released |
| August 11, 2009 : “Now more than ever it’s important for site owners to deploy defenses that can operate at the scale and speed required to deal with this problem,” Dr. Neil Daswani |
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| Free Web antimalware tool offered up |
| August 11, 2009 : “The Lite version, available for limited free trial, is designed to block an infected Web page and alert the Web visitor that the page is “experiencing technical difficulties,” Daswani says. |
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| Dasient Releases Free Open-Source Anti-Malware Module |
| August 11, 2009 : “Every day, thousands of legitimate websites are infected with malicious code, and the speed, scale, and complexity of these attacks makes it difficult for website owners to identify and address the resulting infections,” Dasient co-founder Neil Daswani. |
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| Legit websites face malware hits |
| July 17, 2009 : “80% of websites hosting malicious software are legitimate and many only find out when a customer tries to log onto the site and can’t. “ |
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| Dasient helps Web sites avoid blacklists, malware |
| June 16, 2009 : “Co-founder Neil Daswani got his doctorate in computer science from Stanford, was a product manager on the security team at Google and lead author on “Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs To Know,” a Web application development book that is a standard text used at Google. Daswani helped defend Google’s vast networks against malware, botnets, click fraud, and other threats for the three years he worked there.” |
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| Former Google Employees Launch Web Malware Startup |
| June 16, 2009 : “According to Daswani, malware authors will scan for vulnerable versions of a particular Web application and then run automated scripts to infect every vulnerable application identified.” |
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| Dasient: Ex-Googlers Launch Website Security as a Service |
| June 16, 2009 : “Instead of expecting every business to have security engineers of their own, what we need to do is take security services and make them available as a utility to companies just like electricity is a utility these days, and no one needs to keep an electrical engineer on staff like they did back in the nineteen twenties,” Daswani noted. |
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| Dasient Launches Website Malware Monitoring |
| June 16, 2009 : “The other thing that’s happening with web hosting providers is, very often, it might not be the hosting provider’s fault,” says Daswani. “The site may be using third party applications, and one of those applications has a vulnerability. So to an extent, where the responsibility is [located] is often a gray area, and neither the webmaster or the web hosting providers is in the best position.” |
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| Ex-Google Engineers Launch Web Security Startup |
| June 16, 2009 : “We’re addressing a major issue that has been a fundamental change in how malware gets distributed on the Net…drive-by downloads on legitimate Websites,” says co-founder Neil Daswani, former Google security engineer and product manager. |
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| IT School to Watch: Stanford University |
| August 12, 2008 : “Even though I was focusing on next-generation security for the Internet,” he says, “they put me in a position where I could help companies solve security problems they have today.” |
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| Google launches Ad Traffic Quality Center |
| September 21, 2007 : “Google engineer Neil Daswani and other experts wrote a chapter due to appear in the upcoming book Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses…” |
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