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Click Fraud, Botnets and Parked Domains - All Inclusive

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2008-07-28 07:58:08 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...click) advertising programs, where the junk content, or the typosquatted domain names is aiming to attract high value and expensive keywords in order for the scammer to year higher on per click percentage. This is among the very latest tactics applied by those engaging in click fraud. Hypothetically, the cost to rent the botnet and commit...
 
Tags: click, click fraud, click percentage, click basis, pay-per-click, click forensics, click fraud activity, invalid, invalid clicks difficult
 
 
 
 
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Dont click that link, think first.

2008-08-21 01:15:43 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...click it clipped from it.toolbox.com New Social Malware hits the street As social malware goes, this is a good delivery mechanism for getting people to click on links. Most of us have learned that clicking on links from people who you do not know is generally not a good idea. Spinning up the social aspect of malware delivery, using...
 
Tags: malware, social malware hits, malware delivery, social malware, links, click, friends, facebook friends, social aspect
 
 
 
 
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Google in curious alliance with click-fraud detection firm

2008-10-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x84734a4 in Network World on Security
 
In a development that would have seemed impossible two years ago, Google is cooperating publicly with Click Forensics, a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship
 
Tags: click-fraud detection company, google, click forensics, rocky relationship, ago, publicly, impossible, development
 
 
 
 
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Careful before you click that URL.

2008-07-22 23:51:34 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...click a link to visit a site. If youve never heard of the product, do a lil research first. Visit a review site or use a search engine to check it out clipped from blogs.pcmag.com Beware Fake Anti-Mailware With Fake Editors Choice Awards This isnt news, but its worth reminding everyone: there is a large category of malicious programs...
 
Tags: review site, pcmags security section, beware fake anti-mailware, magazine editors choice, site, antivirus programs, visit, lie, malicious programs
 
 
 
 
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Computer users overeager to click popup 'OKs'

2008-09-25 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Web surfers have a standard reaction to error messages that pop up in their Web browsers, according to new research published this week: They click "OK" and hope it will disappear
 
Tags: error messages, click, web surfers, standard reaction, web browsers, week, research, hope, disappear
 
 
 
 
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Computer users overeager to click popup 'OKs'

2008-09-25 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Surfers just immediately click on the 'OK' button to get rid of the irritant without even thinking about it, which leads to visits to unwanted Web sites, Trojans, keyloggers, malware and other malicious security threats, study says
 
Tags: malicious security threats, web sites, immediately click, visits, surfers, keyloggers, malware, leads, irritant
 
 
 
 
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Hijacking a Spam Campaign's Click-through Rate

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2008-09-26 10:07:16 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...clicking on the campaign's links reaching the post. Close to 15,000 unique visitors reached the article during the past 7 days since the now hijacked, spammer's link is no longer achieving the effect it used to What does this prove? It proves that users tend to trust emails that pass through spam filters so much that they actually click on...
 
Tags: campaign, spam campaign, malware campaign, users, yahoo mail users, yahoo, post, post pretty fast, trust emails
 
 
 
 
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Google in curious alliance with click-fraud detection firm

2008-10-10 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
In a development that would have seemed impossible two years ago, Google is cooperating publicly with Click For
 
Tags: google, click, publicly, impossible, development, ago
 
 
 
 
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Dont be so trusting, check the url before you click.

2008-10-11 23:34:45 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...click on clipped from www.crime-research.org Hackers using fake YouTube pages to attack computers A deceptive YouTube attack evolving as it spreads on the Internet is part of a growing trend of hackers to prowl popular online social networking communities in which people trustingly share web links and mini-programs
 
Tags: fake youtube pages, deceptive youtube attack, attack computers, click, hackers, fakes, crime-research, mini-programs, spreads
 
 
 
 
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Click fraud at 16 percent as scammers resort to botnets