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Archive: From Badware to Malware: Taming the Malicious Web

1,796 views · Published 8 July 2010 · 58:24 · Indexed 31 October 2026

Channel: UW Video · 2010 · Education

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Today's Web is where everything happens: we work, we play, we live our lives. Unfortunately, criminals also use the World Wide Web as a resource for stealing and abusing the very information made accessible by the Web via malware installations.

In his lecture at the University of Washington, Giovanni Vigna addresses one of the latest trends in Web-based malware -- the leveraging of legitimate Web sites for the delivery of attacks that target vulnerabilities in client-side software. How can we make Web applications more secure? How can we detect and block attacks against the components of the Web?
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