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Media Coverage Highlights

		Black Hat: External Content Threatens Web Security At the Black Hat USA 2010 conference in Las Vegas, Dasient, an anti-malware company, warned that companies that rely on third-party Web content place themselves at the mercy of their partners' security practices. July 27, 2010
		Mobile threats, SSL weaknesses, Web application bugs at Black Hat 2010 Dasient, a Web-based antimalware company, will present its research at Black Hat on the three most critical structural vulnerabilities in websites. July 27, 2010
		Report: The 3 Biggest Enterprise Website Malware Vulnerabilities Dasient identifies third-party elements beyond the control of company webmasters as the biggest security holes in most enterprise web sites. Specifically, Dasient identifies third-party JavaScript widgets, advertising and web applications as the biggest liabilities. July 26, 2010
		Web 2.0 Security Means Fighting Malicious Third-Party Content Dasient examines how third-party applications, widgets and online advertisements are affecting the security landscape of the Web. Here are some things for your organization to keep in mind. July 26, 2010
		Websites Running JavaScript at Risk: Report A new report from Dasient concludes that the majority of websites are running third-party JavaScript on their sites, which could be putting them at risk. July 26, 2010
		Security in the Borderless Age of the Web A paper presented at BlackHat by Neil Daswani, CTO and cofounder of Dasient, concludes that websites have no perimeter when it comes to security. July 26, 2010
		New Menace in the War Against Online Crime Dasient uncovers Zeus Trojan's new attacks targeting financial institutions including HSBC and Alliance & Leicester in Britain, and Citibank’s German site. July 13, 2010
		Dasient Helps Publishers Stop Malicious Ads Dasient's Anti-Malvertising Solution promises better tools for dealing with infected ads. Dasient co-founder Neil Daswani estimates that close to 1.3 million malicious ads are served every day. May 18, 2010
		Research: 1.3 million malicious ads viewed daily New research released by Dasient indicates that based on their sample, 1.3 million malicious ads are viewed per day, with 59 percent of them representing drive-by downloads, followed by 41 percent being fake security software also known as scareware. May 18, 2010
		Upstart Takes Aim At Malvertising Attacks Dasient unveils new service to shorten the life of malvertisements. May 18, 2010
		Cyber crooks target web applications Dasient says that every 1.3 seconds a new Web page is getting infected and that users who interact on the Web are therefore at great risk. May 15, 2010
		Web-Based Malware Continues to Grow in Q1: Dasient Research In the first quarter of 2010, Dasient reports that the number of infected websites has grown significantly from 560,000 in Q4 2009 to more than 720,000 in Q1 2010. May 11, 2010
		Chrome Browser, Unhacked According to Web-security firm Dasient, 5.5 million pages on 560,000 sites were infected with malware in the last quarter of 2009. April 8, 2010
		In Excess of 560,000 Sites Suffered Malware Attacks in Q4 2009 A latest report by Internet security firm Dasient reveals that the number of malware-infected Web pages nearly doubled in the final quarter of 2009 as compared to the corresponding period in 2008. February 2, 2010
		The Malware Crisis Dasient, an anti-malware startup, estimates that the number of Web pages infected with malware has almost doubled in the last quarter, compared to the same period a year ago. February 2, 2010
		Approximately 5.5 million webpages infected in Q4 '09 Approximately 560,000 websites – and 5.5 million webpages on those sites – were infected with malware during the fourth quarter of 2009, according to data gathered by web anti-malware vendor Dasient. January 26, 2010
		Report: More Than 560,000 Websites Infected In Q4 "We uncovered evidence of attackers getting more sophisticated and stealthy with their Web-based malware attacks," says Neil Daswani, one of Dasient's co-founders. January 26, 2010
		Malware infections double on Web pages More than 560,000 Web sites and their approximately 5.5 million pages were infected with malware in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Dasient. January 26, 2010
		10 start-ups to watch in 2010: a product roundup Web security service designed to identify legitimate Web sites infected by malicious code. January 4, 2010
		Web-based malware infections rise rapidly, stats show Dasient identified more than 52,000 Web-based malware infections, bringing the total to more than 72,000 unique infections logged by the company since it launched its malware analysis platform early this year. October 27, 2009
		New data shows website hacks continue to grow unabated More than two million more web pages were infected with malware during the third quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter last year, according to data gathered by web anti-malware vendor Dasient. October 27, 2009
		Report: Nearly 6 Million Infected Web Pages Across 640K Compromised Sites Ameet Ranadive, one of Dasient's co-founders and a former strategy consultant at McKinsey, says his company also detected more than 52,000 unique types of Web malware in the quarter. October 27, 2009
		Mass web infections spike to 6 million pages An estimated 5.8 million pages belonging to 640,000 websites were infected with code designed to launch malware attacks on visitors, according to a report. October 27, 2009
		Websites Often Reinfected After Malware Attacks According to Dasient - whose findings are based on data from its malware-analysis platform - most Web-based malware attacks fall into two categories. October 27, 2009
		Dasient spots 640,000 malware-infected Web sites Dasient, which specializes in combating malware on Web sites, identified more than 52,000 specific Web-based malware infections. October 27, 2009
		How Malicious Ads Get on Web Sites Rogue antivirus software is a growing menace on the Internet. Criminals are distributing it in many ways. September 14, 2009
		What to Do If You Saw an 'Antivirus' Pop-Up Ad However, it’s a good idea to to make sure you’re clean by running a (legitimate) antivirus scan just in case, since in other similar attacks, “click or not, the user could still get infected,” said Neil Daswani, a founder of Dasient. September 14, 2009
		Keeping Your Site Out of Hackers' Clutches A new alternative comes from Dasient Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., a startup founded by former Google security pros that monitors sites for malicious code, quarantines it and then helps get rid of it. September 3, 2009
		Open Source Web Anti-Malware Tool Released The software specifically promises to monitor for and identify online malware infection attempts before they can take root on protected URLs, and then quarantine the involved attacks to prevent them from spreading any further. August 11, 2009
		Mod Anti-Malware goes open source for server security Web security vendor Dasient today released an open source version of their Web Anti-Malware (WAM) server security technology. It's called mod anti-malware lite and the basic idea is that it will identify and block/redirect malware on a server. August 11, 2009
		Free Web antimalware tool offered up Apache Server antimalware add-on detects infected Web pages. August 11, 2009
		Dasient Releases Free Open-Source Anti-Malware Module "Every day, thousands of legitimate websites are infected with malicious code, and the speed, scale, and complexity of these attacks makes it difficult for website owners to identify and address the resulting infections," Dasient co-founder Neil Daswani. August 11, 2009
		11 security companies to watch Dasient software on a host Web server to contain and eliminate malware. July 13, 2009
		Legit websites face malware hits Anyone opening an infected page could have the malware downloaded to their computer without even realising it. June 17, 2009
		"Nine-Ball" mass injection attack compromised 40,000 sites Though users simply see the normal content on the infected page, the redirections would occur in the background without their knowledge. June 17, 2009
		Dasient helps Web sites avoid blacklists, malware Dasient comes out of stealth mode to offer a public beta of its free blacklist alert service and a fee-based service for monitoring Web sites for malware to keep them from getting blacklisted in the first place. June 16, 2009
		Dasient Tries to Run Drive-By Malware Off the Web Dasient has gone further than some out there, such as Google, which offers free tools for Webmasters to detect and deal with malware infections. June 16, 2009
		Former Google Employees Launch Web Malware Startup Web site owners have long complained about how difficult it can be to get off a blacklist. Dasient aims to prevent Web sites from ever being blacklisted. June 16, 2009
		Dasient: Ex-Googlers Launch Website Security as a Service By monitoring Web sites for infected pages, providing instant diagnostics and giving site owners a two-click quarantining option within moments of a compromise June 16, 2009
		Dasient Launches Website Malware Monitoring Several circumstances have contributed to the explosion in web-based malware attacks. June 16, 2009
		Ex-Google Engineers Launch Web Security Startup Dasient's free WAM monitoring service alerts Websites when they land on blacklists, and the Premium Monitoring service proactively monitors for infections and alerts Websites before they get blacklisted. June 16, 2009
		Ex-Googlers behind new security service that flags malware on Web sites The goal, the co-founders say, is to assist Web site managers in finding out where the malware problems are before they're on blacklists or to help them get off the blacklists. June 16, 2009
		Ex-Google duo launch anti-malware web service A team including former Google employees has launched a beta service that aims to allow businesses to monitor and protect against reputation damage caused by online malware compromises. June 16, 2009
		Dasient Opens Beta of Anti-Malware for Servers "We have identified over 10,000 types of infections during our Alpha test and prevented thousands of infections on SMB Web sites," said Daswani. June 16, 2009