Published: 2006-05-05
The suit, filed by spyware activist Ben Edelman, follows the purported click-fraud connection with Yahoo that Edelman first reported in August 2005, and then revisited last month. Some additional information on the case outlines the ease at which Yahoo's pay-per-click advertising network could be abused, according to the case filing. Yahoo has not released a press release about the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also alleges that Yahoo made money from placing ads on typo-squatting sites, or misspelled URLs of common websites. Microsoft has released a tool known as the Strider URL Tracer with Typo-Patrol to help combat typo-squatting issues. The tool will be featured in an upcoming Infocus article on SecurityFocus.
Posted by: Kelly Martin
