Google launches new anti-badware API

Google’s anti-malware team has announced a new Safe Browsing API to give developers access to its badware and phishing block lists. The API will allow developers to download an encrypted list, and to perform client-side lookups to check suspicious URLs.

Google’s team says in its announcement, “The API is still experimental, but we hope it will be useful to ISPs, web-hosting companies, and anyone building a site or an application that publishes or transmits user-generated links.” The team is actively seeking feedback.

(Disclosure: Google is one of StopBadware’s corporate partners.)

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