Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Google is now sharing details on why its automatic search deems certain Websites risky.
The search giant this month quietly added a new, free service called the Safe Browsing Diagnostic Page that tells whether a site flagged by Google as potentially dangerous is hosting malware, or helps distribute malware, for ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Last week I was watching TV and saw something that really caught my eye. It was a commercial for Special K, the breakfast cereal from Kellogg, and rather than end with a plug for the product's web site -- SpecialK.com -- it advised people to search Yahoo! for "Special K" ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Google's new Web Security for Enterprise service enables companies in the US and Europe to safeguard their internet traffic with protection against viruses and spyware and malicious URLs. According to Google the system "powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
We received a report from Mike this afternoon about a couple of URLs containing a malicious JavaScript that pulls down a file associated with Zlob. If you do a google search for these two URLs, you get about 400,000 sites that have a call to this Javascript file included in ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
This is not good. Researchers from INSERT found a vulnerability in the Gmail engine that could allow spammers to forward mail through Google, thereby bypassing blacklists and being accepted by whitelists. It works by using the same forwarding features that allow users, myself included, to forward their email through ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Microsoft has dropped its nearly three-month-long pursuit of Yahoo, ending a historic acquisition attempt whose failure takes Microsoft back to square one in its quest to boost its online business to better compete against Google.
"We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo and the market ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Google Adwords account holders are being targeted by criminals out to trick them into handing over credit card information using a clever URL spoof that has gained popularity in recent weeks.
On the face of it, the scam follows a traditional attack route involving the sending of spam e-mail to random ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
One of the more useful Google advanced search features is the date filter, which limits results to recent pages. Results can be limited to the past day, week, month, year, etc. Google’s Matt Cutts and GoogleOperatingSystem wrote about it late last year.
You can access the search via the URL as ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
There's another round of mass SQL injections going on which has infected hundreds of thousands of websites.
Performing a Google search results in over 510,000 modified pages.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The SANS Institute has uncovered what they've termed a "rare gem" as far as computer security investigations go that sheds new light on how up to 20,000 Web sites have been hacked since January.
They found a sneaky software tool that uses Google's search engine to hunt for Web sites running ...
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