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12/11/2013

Web of Trust hits 100 million Downloads Milestone

Helsinki, Finland – November 11th, 2013 - Web of Trust (WOT), a crowdsourced website reputation service surpassed 100 million downloads, doubling its’ downloads within a year...

11/09/2013

Web of Trust improves the transparency in its user ratings

WOT warns users about websites with potential issues...

24/01/2013

Web of Trust Hits 60 Million Downloads Milestone

Web of Trust (WOT) today announced that it has received over 60 million downloads of its browser add-on. Earlier this month WOT reached other important milestone of 40 million rated websites...

26/11/2012

Web of Trust Closes Investment Round from Inventure

The community-powered safe surfing tool Web of Trust (WOT) announced today that it has raised € 1MM investment lead by Inventure, a cross-border venture capital group based in Finland and China. Other participating investors include...

15/11/2012

Web of Trust Becomes First Crowd-Sourced Security Solution Invited into Facebook’s AV Marketplace

WOT’s Community-Powered Reputation Ratings to Protect Facebook Users from Suspicious Links: Fortifies Users’ Existing Antivirus Software...

29/10/2012

Web of Trust Passes 50 Million Downloads Milestone

Web of Trust (WOT), a community-powered safe-surfing tool that helps web users find reliable websites, announced today that it has passed the 50 million downloads milestone...

26/09/2012

WOT Analysis: Are URL Shortening Services Unintentionally Promoting Malicious Websites?

Web of Trust (WOT), a community-powered safe-surfing tool that helps web users find reliable websites, recently completed an analysis of nearly 1.7 billion shortened URL links and found that the URL shortening services are often used to drive traffic to suspicious websites...

21/08/2012

Web of Trust Reaches 40 Million Downloads

Web of Trust (WOT), a community-powered safe-surfing technology that helps web users find reliable websites, announced today that it has reached the 40 million download milestone on Monday of this week...

08/08/2012

Mail.Ru Group Launches New Browser Featuring Web of Trust Safe-Surfing Technology

Web of Trust (WOT), a community-powered safe-surfing technology that helps web users find reliable websites, announced today that Russia’s biggest Internet company, Mail.Ru Group, has launched a new version of its browser which integrates WOT’s crowd-sourced reputation ratings. The new browser is called “Internet” and is being offered to 60 million users of Mail.Ru’s services...

05/04/2012

WOT Services Ltd. is a Finalist for the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award

WOT Services Ltd. announced today it has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region...

30/03/2012

Web of Trust wins About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Award for Best Privacy / Security Add-on Category

WOT Services Ltd. today announced that the community-powered safe surfing tool Web of Trust (WOT) has been selected as the About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Award for Best Privacy / Security Add-on. Now in its fifth year, the About.com Readers' Choice Awards honor the best products, features and services across more than a dozen categories, ranging from technology to hobbies to parenting and more, as selected by its readers...

10/01/2012

Web of Trust reaches 30 million downloads

Web of Trust (WOT), the world’s leading community-powered safe surfing tool, continues its strong growth. It reached the milestone of 30 million downloads on Monday the 9th of January. WOT aims to multiply its user base in 2012, and confirm its position that crowd sourcing is an effective safety mechanism on the web...

13/12/2011

Safe surfing tool Web of Trust wins in court

The world’s leading safe surfing tool Web of Trust (WOT) has won the lawsuit filed against it in the United States. WOT was accused of defamation, violating rights, conspiracy and manipulating algorithms. The court of justice in Florida granted the motion to dismiss with prejudice...

29/09/2011

Web of Trust Ensures Safe Online Shopping for Kiosked In-Content Ad Platform

Web of Trust, the company behind WOT, the leading safe surfing tool which helps millions of users stay safe while searching and shopping the web, and Kiosked, the leading in-content ad platform, are partnering together to provide a safe way for online publishers, bloggers, and photographers to earn money on the shopping impulses their content creates. WOT reputation data is used to pre-validate websites joining the Kiosked network to improve the safety of online shopping and to ensure the trustworthiness of Kiosked products and services...

15/09/2011

WOT and Stop The Hacker Join Hands to Provide Security Services to Website Owners

Websites are the new hunting ground for malicious hackers. More than 6,600 new, legitimate websites get hacked every single day. These legitimate websites are compromised because of weaknesses in the website or the hosting infrastructure. WOT, the leading website reputation rating tool from Web of Trust, helps web surfers know which sites can be trusted by capturing the experiences and trust ratings of the online community. StopTheHacker.com and WOT are partnering to protect the online reputation of websites...

30/08/2011

Web of Trust Partners with Russia’s Largest Internet Company, Mail.ru Group

Web of Trust (WOT), the world’s leading website reputation rating service, and Mail.ru Group, Russia’s largest Internet company, have partnered together to improve online protection for 300 million people using Russia's leading free e-mail service, Mail.ru. All links contained in emails received by Mail.ru users are checked through WOT’s reputation database to warn users from following untrustworthy links that could lead to scams, identity theft, malware and other online threats...

10/05/2011

Facebook Protects Users from Untrustworthy Websites with Web of Trust Reputation Ratings

Web of Trust (WOT), the world’s leading crowd-sourced website reputation rating service, and Facebook, the Internet’s leading social platform, begin collaboration today to give Facebook’s over 500 million users reliable protection against dubious web links. When a Facebook user clicks a link that leads to a page with a poor reputation rating given by the WOT community, Facebook shows a warning message. WOT’s global community has reported five million sites for phishing, untrustworthy content, fraudulent services or various scams...

16/03/2011

GlobalSign Partners with Web of Trust to Provide Reputation Data in the Website Passport

GlobalSign (www.globalsign.co.uk), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in Digital Certificate security, today announced a new partnership with Web of Trust (WOT), allowing the addition of community-sourced reputation information to GlobalSign’s Website Passport service. The data feed will provide real-time access to the world’s largest reputation rating community to enhance customer trust and help users make an informed decision on a site’s trustworthiness...

17/02/2011

Safe Surfing Tool Web of Trust Sued over Community Warnings

Ten Internet companies based in Florida, US, have filed a lawsuit against WOT Services, the provider of safe surfing tool Web of Trust. The companies are requesting WOT to remove ratings and comments related to them. WOT is accused of defamation, violating rights, conspiracy and manipulating algorithms. WOT believes the case is baseless and has suggested dismissing the case in the court of justice in Florida...

26/01/2011

How trustworthy is that site? New "Web of Trust" extension for Opera knows

If you have ever wanted a trusted guide to help navigate the twists and turns of the Web, look no further than the Web of Trust (WOT) extension. WOT is an extension available for Opera 11, the newest browser from Opera Software. Download WOT from https://addons.opera.com/...

14/12/2010

InnoFinland Prize Awarded to Web of Trust Community of over 16 Million Web Users

The President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, presented the national INNOFINLAND 2010 prize to Web of Trust (WOT) in observation of National Innovation Day on December 14th. The prize was awarded to Web of Trust for its innovative use of "the wisdom of the crowds" to warn Internet users when they are about to visit a website that may pose threats such as phishing, scams, identity theft or inappropriate content for children...

03/12/2010

Search Engine DuckDuckGo Offers Users WOT Protection Against Scam Websites

Search engine methods were in the news after the New York Times wrote about a shady online vendor who encouraged bad reviews to manipulate his site’s ranking within Google. Unsuspecting customers were ripped off and abused without any indication that they were dealing with a scammer. Search engine DuckDuckGo has built in the WOT safe surfing option to protect their users from clicking on untrustworthy sites with a record of bad customer service...

24/11/2010

Web of Trust (WOT) a Must Have Tool in the Online Group Buying Industry

Online Group Buying has seen massive expansion in the last two years and now has more than 500 sites worldwide. The model is to drive a specific number of users to commit to purchasing an online discount coupon. Once the predetermined number is achieved, the credit cards for each of those users are charged and the transaction completed. As this billion-dollar industry continues to grow, security is first and foremost on the minds of potential customers. Consumers are concerned about the safety of their personal and financial information when shopping online...

17/11/2010

Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor offers WOT as Protection Against Dubious Sites

More than 10,000 consumer complaints concerning Internet cost traps were received at the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor this year. Alleged free offers turn out to be subscriptions with huge costs. If consumers don’t pay they are threatened with a collection agency or a lawyer. Some consumers receive invoices even without using any web services. Now you can protect yourself...

10/11/2010

Web of Trust (WOT) attends FOSI conference to discuss the innovative ways WOT keeps children safe online

Child safety is a driving force of the safe surfing tool, Web of Trust (WOT), which shows the websites you can trust based on the real-life experiences of millions of web users and trusted technical sources. Out of 30 million sites rated by the community for trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety, 4.5 million of them are rated dangerous for children...

05/11/2010

Epic, the World’s First Indian Browser Partners with WOT for Safe Surfing

Web of Trust (WOT), the leading community-based safe surfing tool, and Indian startup company Hidden Reflex have partnered together on the first ever web browser from India called Epic. Epic has a wide range of features designed to attract Indian web users including an industry first; pre-installed protection with the WOT reputation rating tool and antivirus software...

04/11/2010

Coinflip.com the first gaming site in the world to publish a WOT Trust Seal

Pokerisivut.com, recipient of the iGB Best Overall Affiliate of 2010 award, and Web of Trust (WOT), the leading community-based safe surfing tool, announced that Pokerisivut and its international sister sites Coinflip.com, Coinflip.nl and Texaspoker.dk have placed WOT Trust Seals on their sites to communicate their commitment to making members' transactions as safe, private and secure as possible...

09/09/2010

Web of Trust Recommends GFI VIPRE Antivirus Product for its Worldwide User Community

GFI Software, a leading IT solutions provider for small and medium-sized enterprises, and Web of Trust (WOT), the leading community-based safe surfing tool, today announced that Web of Trust will offer the GFI VIPRE® antivirus product to its worldwide user community...

23/08/2010

Paysite Cash Becomes a Partner of WOT (Web Of Trust)

Paysite Cash is pleased to announce a partnership with the world’s community-based leader in website assessment: WOT (Web of Trust); www.mywot.com...

12/05/2010

WOT and LegitScript Partner to Protect Web Users from Rogue Online Pharmacies

Web of Trust (WOT), the leading community-based safe surfing tool, and LegitScript, the world's largest online pharmacy verification program, have announced a partnership to help WOT users identify trustworthy prescription drug websites and avoid fraudulent ones...

27/11/2009

WOT Services Ltd and Suomen Verkkomaksut Oy Cooperate to Improve the Marketing of Web Shops

WOT Services Ltd., the company behind the reputation rating services Web of Trust (WOT) and Community Trust Network (CTN) launched a new cooperation with the leading Internet payment provider in Finland, Suomen Verkkomaksut Ltd. The aim of cooperation is to help web shops communicate their trustworthiness and reliability and promote the overall security of e-commerce operations to consumers...

17/11/2009

WOT is #1 Rising Star of the North from Finland, Awarded by SIME

The reputation rating service Web of Trust is the top Finnish company in the 2009 SIME Rising Stars of the North, and fifth overall in the Nordics. The 12-member jury selected the WOT browser add-on as top in Finland because it uses a high level of innovation and has created a unique product with a clear end-user focus. WOT and its new commercial product, the Community Trust Network, was judged to have great potential to become a commercial success and mean a lot to users and customers...

03/11/2009

WOT Services Launches Trust Network for Online Business Owners to Promote Excellent Reputations and Collect Feedback

WOT Services Ltd, the company behind the reputation rating service Web of Trust, launched the Community Trust Network (CTN), a program that gives websites with superior reputations tools to publicize their trustworthiness and to collect ratings and feedback in a neutral way. The end result for website owners is that they attract new visitors, improve their reputation, and boost sales by increasing confidence and trust...

30/07/2009

Panda Security and Against Intuition partner to offer WOT, the community-based safe surfing tool

Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, and Against Intuition, the developer of the leading website rating service Web of Trust (WOT), today announced a partnership to deliver a safer Web search experience through their new co-branded version of WOT. The WOT browser add-on warns Internet users about risky websites, providing protection against online scams, identity theft, spyware, spam, and unreliable shopping sites. WOT’s protection is now extended with Panda’s up-to-the-minute information on malware distributors and dangerous domains...

31/03/2009

Web of Trust launches new version of the popular browser security tool to fit Web surfing habits

Web of Trust launches a new version of the WOT safe surfing add-on with customizable protection. Experienced Web users who prefer “Light” protection get a simple warning if they surf to a page with a poor reputation, whereas selecting “Maximum Safety” will prevent a risky page from loading. Parents with young children can choose the “Parental Control” mode which blocks access to sites that contain pornography or other adult content...

10/02/2009

Michael Widenius, founder of MySQL, invests in WOT, Web of Trust

Helsinki, Finland (PRWEB) February 16, 2009 Michael "Monty" Widenius, founder of MySQL and a guru for the global open source movement, has invested in WOT, Web of Trust. WOT, a free community-driven security add-on that helps Internet users protect themselves against online threats, closed its second round of funding as the community exceeded 3 million downloads...

03/12/2008

Google Chrome Browser to Get Extensions - Web of Trust Among the Top 15 Add-ons

Following up on promises made in September, Google has outlined plans to open their Chrome browser to third-party extensions. Web of Trust is included in an initial list of 15 add-ons that Google is targeting to support. Chrome's closest rival, Mozilla's open source browser Firefox, is popular because the browser can be extended with a multitude of add-ons. Web of Trust (WOT) has reached 2 million downloads since securing a place on Mozilla's coveted recommended add-on list...

24/11/2008

WOT Releases Extended Protection for Web-Based Email Users

WOT, Web of Trust, extends the security protection of its popular browser add-on to the top three Internet-based email services -- Google Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. WOT checks links embedded in email and warns users of dangerous websites to help them avoid spyware, spam, phishing, identity theft and other Internet fraud, before they risk clicking...

17/09/2008

Epidemic of fake anti-malware products threaten Internet users

The latest trend of security threats against Internet users employs software products which pretend to be security tools that help rid your computer of spyware. In a new video series, WOT shows what can happen to your computer if you visit a risky or dangerous site. In the first of these video presentations, you will see examples of online scams and malware threats in action, satisfying your curiosity while keeping your computer safe...

23/06/2008

WOT Finds Increased Security Threats in the Internet's Red Light District: Adult Sites Cause the Most Damage to Internet Users

Websites offering adult content are the single most significant security threat for Internet users, comprising 31% of dangerous websites. Corporate and home users face an increased risk from web-based security threats such as spyware, viruses, browser exploits and phishing attacks when visiting adult sites...

21/05/2008

WOT, People-driven Internet Security, Launches Colorblind Accessible Version

WOT, a free browser security tool that helps individual Internet users surf safer by warning about dangerous websites, is releasing a Colorblind Accessible version of the popular add-on. With this new version, Web of Trust opens the door for 7% of the population, who wouldn’t benefit otherwise, to be warned about risky sites that could damage their computers and cost them money...

22/04/2008

WOT, people-driven Internet security, launches Website Reputation Scorecard

People-driven security, an approach that lets individual Internet users join their forces in the battle against online threats, gains momentum with the introduction of the new WOT Website Reputation Scorecard. By combining the collective power of millions of human eyes with data from automated blacklist services, WOT delivers accurate up-to-the minute website reputation information...

06/02/2008

WOT study sheds light on the dark corners of the Internet

The 3 categories of websites causing most damage to users...

23/01/2008

WOT launches the world's first online reputation rating community

WOT - Web of Trust - is launching the world's first online tool for reputation rating on December 3, 2007. This community-based browser add-on allows Internet users to assess the trustworthiness of websites. The community's new website, including free download, can be found at http://www.mywot.com/...