19 June 2008 @ 01:57 pm
NebuAd Controversy Coverage  
- Google News
NebuAd Takes Heat for Spying on Web Surfers
Washington Post, United States - 22 hours ago
NebuAd, a company that provides targeted advertising for Internet Service Providers, is altering the basic coding of Web sites to spy on consumers' Web ...

NebuAd Forges Net Packets to Drop Cookies on Users, Report Says
Wired News - 22 hours ago
An online advertising firm called NebuAd that pays ISPs to let it eavesdrop on web ...

Watchdogs Claim NebuAd Hijacking Sites
eWeek, NY - 23 hours ago
By Roy Mark Two watchdog groups accused Silicon Valley startup NebuAd June 18 of hijacking websites and intercepting users' browsers. ...

Groups: Ad Firm Used by ISPs Spies on Users
PC World - Jun 18, 2008
A targeted advertising vendor being used by several US broadband providers hijacks browsers, spies on users and employs man-in-the-middle attacks, ...

Report: NebuAd ads inserted via "man-in-the-middle attack"
Ars Technica, MA - 3 hours ago
By Nate Anderson | Published: June 19, 2008 - 12:25PM CT Free Press and Public Knowledge love to lob bombshells at ISPs. Free Press was a big backer of the ...

NebuAd On Defensive Following Report
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 4 hours ago
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/19/2008 9:20:00 AM Online advertising network NebuAd defended its service Wednesday after Free Press and Public ...

NebuAd Has No Respect for Privacy
Marketing Vox News - 6 hours ago
Free Press and Public Knowledge, a group that favors net neutrality, issued a report stating "NebuAd's practices resemble several forms of 'attacks' on ...

NebuAd Accused Of Ignoring Online Privacy Basic Rules
MediaPost Publications, New York - 8 hours ago
by Wendy Davis, Thursday, Jun 19, 2008 8:00 AM ET With lawmakers gearing up to grill online ad executives, advocacy groups Wednesday accused behavioral ...

Report slams US advert server for "wiretapping, forgery and ...
Current IT news from heise online, UK - 10 hours ago
US personalised advert server NebuAd has been accused by lobbying group Free Press of tampering with web traffic and third party page content and illicit ...

Consumer Groups Dig Inside NebuAD Technology And find a slew of ...
Dslreports - 23 hours ago
Consumer groups Free Press and Public Knowledge today issued a report (pdf) on NebuAD behavioral advertising technology. ISPs are paid to install a user ...


http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080619-report-nebuad-ads-inserted-via-man-in-the-middle-attack.html
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/06/nebuad_takes_heat_for_spying_o.html?nav=rss_blog
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/nebuad-forges-g.html
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=85012
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6571556.html
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Consumer-Groups-Dig-Inside-NebuAD-Technology-95385?nocomment=1
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Legal/Watchdogs-Claim-NebuAd-Hijacking-Sites/
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Report-slams-US-advert-server-for-wiretapping-forgery-and-browser-hijacking--/110957
http://www.marketingvox.com/nebuad-has-no-respect-for-privacy-039343/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,147259-c,security/article.html

Also some Blog Coverage found via http://blogsearch.google.com

Robb Topolski: NebuAd Uses Packet Forgery and Browser Hijacking ...
Mehan Jayasuriya  
With the help of noted networking researcher Robb Topolski, Public Knowledge and Free Press conducted a technical analysis of NebuAd, in order to figure out exactly how the company’s behavioral advertising technology works—and what ...

Consumer Groups Dig Inside NebuAD Technology - And find a slew of ...
 “NebuAd breaks the rules of acceptable behavior on the Internet,” says Topolski. “It monitors what you do and see on the Internet, it breaks in and changes the contents of your private communications, it keeps track of what you’ve done, ...

NebuAd Forges Net Packets to Drop Cookies on Users, Report Says ...
NebuAd Forges Net Packets to Drop Cookies on Users, Report Says Wired News -  Topolski compares the behavior of NebuAd to that of two common hacking attacks: cross-site scripting and Man-in-the-Middle attacks. ...

And just one I found otherwise (very good entry):

NebuAD is as bad as we thought
Charter Watcher
It seems like everyone has a recent article on NebuAD’s technology, which was once thought to be simple deep packet inspection only. As it turns out, NebuAD is actually conducting browser hijacks and modifying packets. The legality of this kind of thing isn’t really questionable. NebuAD is actively engaged in criminal activity..

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Joshua Coleman[info]traventm on June 20th, 2008 01:54 am (UTC)
Grab a spoon
You just LOVE to stir shit up, don't you? It's almost like you thrive on it. I'll have to remember to watch my P's and Q's around you. Better also make sure I cross my T's and dot my I's.

Anyways, I use Qwest. Is there anything QWESTionable that they're doing that I ought to know about? You're apparently the person to ask.... ;)
Robb Topolski[info]funchords on June 20th, 2008 02:09 am (UTC)
Re: Grab a spoon
They had an Enron-esque scandal a few years back, but I haven't heard anything recently. :-)

--Robb (chief swill cook)