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May. 12, 2008 at 8:20am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Labels Google As Malware? No, Yahoo URL Mix Up
Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo) from TechCrunch reports a funny bug at Yahoo that accidently made it look like Google's home page had Malware on it, based on the Yahoo SearchScan feature that was recently launched. A search for Astalavista at Yahoo returned what appeared to be a...
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May. 6, 2008 at 12:00am by Vanessa Fox
Yahoo Adds SearchScan Alerts to "Risky" Search Results
Yahoo Search has begun a partnership with McAfee, Inc. to provide SearchScan, which uses McAfee's SiteAdvisor technology to flag URLs it deems "risky" in the search results. Results are flagged with the type of danger below the title. This new feature is primarily aimed at preventing spyware and other...
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Mar. 7, 2008 at 9:22am by Barry Schwartz
U.S. Pentagon Bans Google From Military Bases
Google mappers banned from U.S. bases from the LA Times reports the US Pentagon has banned Google StreetView photographers from accessing military bases. The ban came after StreetView photographs of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio were found on Google Maps....
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Feb. 25, 2008 at 8:09am by Barry Schwartz
Hackers Launch Goolag: A Google Vulnerability Scanner
Hackers turn Google into vulnerability scanner from Techworld reports a group of hackers named Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) launched a search tool powered by Google to help see if your sites are vulnerable to a hacking attempt. The tool is named Goolag, and by typing in a domain...
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Feb. 21, 2008 at 9:02am by Barry Schwartz
Gmail User Gains Access To 30 Other Gmail Accounts Due To ISP Caching Glitch
Google says ISP glitch exposes Gmail data in Kuwait from News.com has confirmed reports that a Gmail user in Kuwait has inadvertently accessed about 30 Gmail accounts that were not his. Supposedly, he also accessed an email that had "keycodes for some embassy gate." Whose fault is this? Not Google!...
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Feb. 13, 2008 at 9:01am by Barry Schwartz
Google Study: 1.3% Google Searches Return At Least One Malicious Result
Web Browsing, Search, And Online Ads Grow More Risky, Google Says from InformationWeek reports on a recent Google Study named All Your iFRAMEs Point to Us that shows 1.3% of Google searches returned at least one malicious result. Niels Provos, a security engineer at Google, lead the study that took...
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Dec. 7, 2007 at 11:22am by Greg Sterling
Report: Hacked Pages Remain In Search Engines' Caches
Search Engine Journal reports that online security firm Aladdin Knowledge Systems identified a potential "flaw, which allows the search engines to deliver malicious pages that have already been removed from the web." What that means as a practical matter is that hacked pages, which have already been taken down or...
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Nov. 30, 2007 at 9:20am by Barry Schwartz
Google Adds Report Malicious Software Form
In the aftermath of the major malware attack that hit search results, the Google Online Security Blog announced the launch of a new form to report malware software showing up in Google results....
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Nov. 29, 2007 at 8:54am by Barry Schwartz
Search Spam Is Getting More Dangerous Every Day
Search spam, using techniques that manipulate the search results, feels like it is getting more dangerous every day. Some search spammers go as far as hacking sites to inject link spam into unsuspecting web pages. And some go even further by polluting the search results with nasty malware. Yesterday we...
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Nov. 28, 2007 at 8:57am by Barry Schwartz
Malware Hits Search Results -- Google's Malware Warnings Not Working?
Subverted search sites lead to massive malware attack in progress from ComputerWorld reports that Google, along with Yahoo, Live Search have been targeted in a massive attack that puts links leading to malware sites into top search results. Alex Eckelberry, Sunbelt Software's CEO said "So far we've found 27 different...
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Sep. 19, 2007 at 10:28am by Barry Schwartz
Google Presentations Security Issue Leaked Email Addresses
Nathan Weinberg reports that Google fixed a security issue with the new Google Presentations, which leaked user email addresses to the public. What happened was that when webmasters tried to embed presentations into their web pages, it would then log people into Google Talk via their Google Account. After they...
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Sep. 11, 2007 at 8:53am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo's Right Media Serves Up Trojan Ads For Three Weeks
Yahoo feeds Trojan-laced ads to MySpace and PhotoBucket users from The Register reports that Yahoo's newly acquired Right Media served up ads with Trojan viruses for three weeks during the month of August. The flash ads reportedly contained a file that installed a Trojan back door on vulnerable Windows machines...
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Jun. 4, 2007 at 12:33pm by Barry Schwartz
Search Results Getting Safer
The State of Search Engine Safety was released by Site Advisor today. In this report, we learned that search results are now safer then they were a year ago. 4% of the search results are link to risky sites, down from 5.0% reported last year. Sponsored results are 2.4 times...
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May. 21, 2007 at 9:53am by Barry Schwartz
June To Be "Month of Search Engines Bugs"
'Month of bugs' pins bull's-eye on Google, Yahoo from Computerworld reports Websecurity.com.ua says it will post a security vulnerability about the most popular search engines of the world each day throughout the month of June, in particular cross-site scripting ones....
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Apr. 25, 2007 at 1:28pm by Barry Schwartz
Windows Vulnerability Exploited Through Google AdWords
Virus Writers Taint Google Ad Links from the Washington Post covers a report saying that consumers trying to reach some legitimate sites might be getting infected with malicious software when they click on ads at Google. The software tries to "steal passwords and other sensitive information from infected PCs," the...
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Mar. 23, 2007 at 10:52am by Barry Schwartz
Court: Google Suggest Feature Not Responsible For Encouraging Software Piracy
Belgian company loses lawsuit against Google from IT World reports that Google has won a suit brought against them by ServersCheck, a Belgian company. The company complained that the Google Suggest feature was helping people find pirated versions of its software....
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Feb. 21, 2007 at 9:21am by Barry Schwartz
Google Desktop Hole Exposed, Fixed
BusinessWeek reports that Google Desktop had a major defect that could have potentially enabled hackers to view personal files on a computer with Google Desktop installed. The hole was plugged February 1st, a few weeks after it was discovered by Watchfire Corp. Google says it has no evidence the vulnerability...
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Jan. 15, 2007 at 2:35pm by Chris Sherman
Hacking Google To Help It Improve Security
Last Friday, Philipp Lenssen wrote a fascinating post describing how his associate Tony Ruscoe was able to access Philipp's Google account: "It’s your worst nightmare – someone reads parts of your Google emails, views your docs, modifies your spreadsheets, checks out your reading habits on the Google personalized homepage or...
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Dec. 27, 2006 at 9:07am by Barry Schwartz
Using Google Code Search To Find Vulnerable Sites
ShoeMoney wrote a detailed write up on how hackers can easily use Google Code Search to quickly find sites that are vulnerable to being hacked. ShoeMoney shows XSS exploits, SQL injection exploits and more. ShoeMoney wasn't the first to spot this. SEO Egghead wrote about some examples on October 5th....
