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BLADE
Original author(s)	Phillip Porras and Vinod Yegneswaran at SRI International; Long Lu and Wenke Lee at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	Information security
Website	www.blade-defender.org

BLADE (Block All Drive-by Download Exploits) is a computer program that was developed by Phillip Porras and Vinod Yegneswaran at SRI International; and Long Lu and Wenke Lee at the Georgia Institute of Technology. BLADE is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the United States Army Research Laboratory, and the Office of Naval Research. The program is designed to prevent drive-by download malware attacks.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References edit

^ Bright, Peter (2010-10-06). "Drive-by malware blocked by new BLADE software". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
^ "BLADE: Secure Defense for Network Browsers". SRI International. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
^ Krebs, Brian (2010-02-22). "Stopping Stealthy Downloads". Technology Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2012-01-06.