Google offers security blacklists to all
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Google is offering developers the same security API it and Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox use to identify and warn users about phishing and malware-dropping sites.
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Hole could allow remote attackers to access your local search results.
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Google unveils a feature listing the day's 100 fastest-rising search requests to show what is baffling web users.
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A bug in the Google Toolbar could allow criminals to steal data or install malicious software on a system, a security researcher warns.
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InfoWorld - Google Inc.&#39;s acquisition of security company GreenBorder Technologies Inc. is a sign the search giant wants to bolster confidence in its browser-delivered applications amid growing threats from malicious software on the Internet.
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A serious flaw in Google's desktop software could be used to wreak havoc on a victim's PC.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has enhanced the way it notifies webmasters that their sites contain malware, improving on a service the Mountain View, California, company launched in November of last year in a partnership with The Stop Badware Coalition . Google has begun providing more detailed alerts and to send these notifications via e-mail to webmasters, according to a posting Monday on an official Google blog. Previously, Google only informed webmasters that their sites had been identified as having malware and made generic suggestions for fixing the problem. Now, the company also points webmasters to specific offending pages from their sites that Google has determined contain malicious components. "This can be helpful when the malicious content is hard to find," the posting reads. "By providing example URLs, webmasters are one step closer to diagnosing the problem and ultimately re-securing their sites." Before, Google notified webmasters by placing a note in the site's summary page in Google's Webmaster Tools site , but now it is sending the alert via e-mail as well. Google flags Web sites according to guidelines set by The Stop Badware Coalition. Webmasters who feel their sites have been incorrectly flagged as having malware need to contact the coalition and request a review. In August, and also in conjunction with The Stop Badware Coalition, Google started displaying malware alerts for users of its search engine. When users attempt to click over to a Web site considered to be potentially dangerous, Google shows an alert page that informs them of the possible risk and gives them the option to click back to the results page or continue on to the questionable Web site. However, these alerts sometimes anger webmasters who are convinced their sites don't contain malware. The Stop Badware Coalition is a nonprofit organization led by Harvard University and the University of Oxford and backed by Google, Lenovo Group Ltd. and Sun Microsystems Inc. A study published in May of last year by security vendor McAfee Inc.'s SiteAdvisor unit found that U.S. Internet users land on malicious Web sites about 285 million times per month by clicking on search results from the five major search engines, which are operated by Google, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp.'s MSN unit, IAC/InterActiveCorp's Ask.com and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL LLC. Malicious Web sites are those that download spyware and adware to visitors' PCs, exploit security vulnerabilities and attempt to scam users and include them in spam lists, among other dangers. Â
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Google Inc. has enhanced the way it notifies webmasters that their sites contain malware, improving on a service the Mountain View, California, company launched in November of last year in a partnership with The Stop Badware Coalition.
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Ogling Google can be a dangerous pastime.
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Dips toe into security market Google is acquiring GreenBorder, a Silicon Valley startup that helps protect web users against malware.â¦
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There is some confusion about threats posed by the new search tool. Google says common sense is enough of a patch. By Thomas Claburn.
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Computer scientists have discovered a potentially serious flaw in Google&#39;s desktop search utility that could allow attackers to steal information.
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Onslaught of Google bugs continues Google security lieutenants can't get a break. Over the past week, they've taken a public pounding, following reports of at least four previously undisclosed holes that included new cracks in Gmail and weaknesses that jeopardize the privacy of those who rely on the site to organize photos or administer their websites.â¦
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Plus: Google apps for your site, and HP's pretexting debacle.
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Beta search app creates vulnerabilities that may threaten your data's   security.
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Google said it was blocking searches generated by a new worm, Santy.A, which were being used to find and infect vulnerable computers on the Internet.
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Google's PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning, that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.