Dasient Blog

The Dasient team is excited to announce that we have been acquired by Twitter! Effective immediately, we will be bringing our technology, tools, and team to the revenue engineering team at Twitter.
Since its inception, Dasient has been focused on solving web-scale security problems involving malware and other types of online abuse. In 2009, Dasient launched its web anti-malware platform, capable of scanning URLs and websites for the presence of...

In an effort to protect the privacy of users, mobile apps sometimes hash the user’s IMEI number prior to sending it to a server. We found that hashing IMEIs does not protect the privacy of users, even with the use of cryptographically secure hash functions...

Last week, we had given previews of some of our findings from an analysis of 10,000 Android apps to a few reporters including Tim Wilson at DarkReading, Rob Westervelt at SearchSecurity, and Sean Kerner at InternetNews.com. Since then, we've been glad...

Writing malware, as with writing any other type of software, involves costs and benefits.  Like any software developer, malware authors want to reach as many users as they can, usually by creating a program that is easy and fast to deploy and can be...