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Microsoft hits back over Google's search result claims

...rigged to manipulate Bing search results", and called Google's honeypot attack "click fraud". He then compared Google's efforts to the methods used by... Read more

3 February, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn
Revealing Botnet Membership Using DNSBL Counter-Intelligence

Revealing Botnet Membership Using DNSBL Counter-Intelligence

...typically compromised) machines-are often used for nefarious activities (e.g., spam, click fraud, denial-of-service attacks, etc.). Identifying members of botnets could help... Read more

1 January, 2012
How Google set a search trap for Bing

How Google set a search trap for Bing

...Google's process to the tactics used by spammers and called it "click fraud". "We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period... Read more

3 February, 2011 by Jon Yeomans

Yahoo sues Facebook over wide-ranging patents

...the positioning of ads and the monitoring of ad clicks for potential click fraud. Another, which deals with instant messaging, is violated by Facebook Messages... Read more

13 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Yahoo sues Facebook over social media patents

...of Yahoo's patents covering areas around advertising, user actions, privacy and click fraud prevention. The issue first came to light in February, when Yahoo... Read more

13 March, 2012

Hey HP and Oracle; the kids can hear you fighting

...and Bing's Harry Shum drily snarking back by accusing Google of click fraud) to (notice a pattern?) Google pre-empting Nokia's deal with... Read more

2 April, 2011

Global spam traffic rebounds as Rustock wakes

...quiet over the Christmas and New Year period; it continued to commit click fraud, which involves manipulating infected computers into simulating a click on a... Read more

12 January, 2011
Kaspersky Flashfake Removal Tool 1.0

Kaspersky Flashfake Removal Tool 1.0

...results, displaying false results for users and generating profits for cybercriminals via 'click fraud'. It is quite possible that, in addition to intercepting search engine... Read more

11 April, 2012
SurfStatsLive Reporting Server 2011.1.1

SurfStatsLive Reporting Server 2011.1.1

...in the Professional and Enterprise edition The Enterprise Edition has eCommerce reporting, Click Fraud reporting and Windows media log file support Read more

14 November, 2011
BOTCLOUDS the Future of Cloud-Based Botnets?

BOTCLOUDS the Future of Cloud-Based Botnets?

...botnets. These attacks include launching a DDoS attack, sending spam and perpetrating click fraud. This paper discusses the threat of Cloud-based botnets, or botclouds... Read more

3 March, 2011

Microsoft files 'click laundering' fraud lawsuit

...this week accusing a website of engaging in a new type of click fraud called 'click laundering' by getting credit for clicks on ads that... Read more

24 May, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Botnet click fraud hits a high

...of zombie computers, known as botnets, accounted for over 42 percent of click fraud in the third quarter of 2009, compared with 27.5 percent... Read more

23 October, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Yahoo appoints click fraud tsar

...staff attorneys to an executive-level position that is akin to being click fraud tsar at the second largest web search provider. For seven years... Read more

22 March, 2007 by Elinor Mills

Google to offer click-fraud protection

...in Google's AdWords blog on Thursday, is an effort to curb click fraud, which involves generating clicks solely for the purpose of increasing the... Read more

1 March, 2007 by Elinor Mills

Click fraud alliance formed at last

...Wednesday finally announced plans to work with two industry groups to quantify click fraud. Click fraud occurs when online ads are intentionally clicked on, either... Read more

3 August, 2006 by Elinor Mills

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