Research: Malware Hiding Behind TRUSTe Certs (Enterprise Security Today)

Web sites that feature the TRUSTe security certificate are two times more likely to contain badware than Web sites without any security certification, spyware and adware researcher Ben Edelman alleges in a new report. Among others, adware providers Direct-revenue and Webhancer are using TRUSTe certificates in an attempt to look more trustworthy than they really are, Edelman claimed. ...

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