ICSI in International Business Times
“ISPs Regularly Hijack Searches for Profit, Study Shows”
August 8, 2011 | James Lee Philips, International Business Times
excerpt:
A recent study shows that a single company is responsible for a number of small ISPs making extra money using nefarious search engine hijacks. The report was a joint effort by Peter Eckersley of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson, and Nicholas Weaver of ICSI (International Computer Science Institute) of Berkeley, California.
article-date:
Monday, August 8, 2011
recap:
A series of articles on evidence collected by Netalyzr that shows some Internet service providers may be receiving money to redirect users’ Internet searches through third-party companies and to large retailers such as Apple and Safeway.