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To help ensure its tweets are not tainted with malware, micro-blogging service Twitter has acquired anti-malware startup Dasient.

 

Dasient announced it will be bringing its technology, tools, and team to the revenue engineering team at Twitter "effective immediately."

 

"By joining Twitter, Dasient will be able to apply its technology and team to the world’s largest real-time information network. As part of this merger, Dasient is winding down its business and is no longer able to accept new customers," Dasient said in a blog post.

 

Dasient said it has been focused on solving web-scale security problems involving malware and other types of online abuse.

 

In 2009, it launched its web anti-malware platform, capable of scanning URLs and websites for the presence of harmful content.

 

Dasient in 2010 launched the industry’s first anti-malvertising service to protect ad networks and publishers from the scourge of malicious ads.

 

"Over the last year, we have been very active in securing the ads and content of the some of the industry’s largest ad networks and web sites" it said.

 

A separate article on CNET said Dasient reported last year that Web sites thought to be infected with malware had nearly doubled from the previous year and that malvertising is also quickly on the rise. — TJD, GMA News