StopBadware launches as stand alone organization

Launched four years ago by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, StopBadware emerged today as a stand alone nonprofit organization under the leadership of Maxim Weinstein, StopBadware’s executive director.

If you don’t know StopBadware, you should. It’s an important organization in the cybersecurity space that focuses on helping to rid the Internet of malicious software and provides a resource for computer users on these issues. One of the key initiatives of the organization is a searchable badware clearinghouse  of websites that are known to distribute badware based on data from Google and Sunbelt Software. The organization also hosts Badwarebusters  “a community for discussing viruses, spyware, and other bad software.”

We wish Maxim and StopBadware good luck in this new expanded effort and we at NCSA look forward to working with them to make the Internet safer and more secure.

SSO (stay safe online),
Michael