Google Sharpens Malware Alerts for Webmasters
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Google improves the way it notifies sites that they are afflicted with malware.
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DECEMBER 21, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Antivirus companies are warning Internet users about a new, fast-spreading worm that infects Web servers running a popular package of online bulletin board software and uses the Google search engine to find
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Security firms are warning that new variants of the Santy worm have start spreading through other search engines than Google. The new versions now also use AOL and Yahoo.
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Two Google site vulnerabilities that could be used to mount phishing attacks have been reported, says the Internet search giant. It already has fixed one, and expects to patch the second shortly.
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Hoping to assist owners of malware-infected sites to find and eradicate their parasites, Google and the Stop Badware Coalition are enhancing their alert services.
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Google is quickly responding to security threats, as befits a search site that is rapidly becoming indispensable for IT users of all kinds.
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Google's experimental API lets other programs access its blacklist of Web sites that may host malware.
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News.com reports that a web worm named Santy is utilizing Google to help it spread to web bulletin boards using the PHP scripting language.
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Search sites are getting wiser about not directing users to malware-loaded pages, but some companies do a better job of weeding out the garbage than others, according to a new study from McAfee. Two topics are particularly likely to lead to scum-infested sites.
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Update to free browser will warn people if a Web site looks like a phishing scam, its maker says.
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According to this new post on the PHP Security Blog, there's a new META tag the Suhosin extension includes in the output of a phpinfo page to help resolve some of the issues with Google (and buddies) storing the contents of the page, giving a potential attacker information they could exploit.   [The] extra META TAG to the HTML output of phpinfo() that forbids indexing and archiving by robots. For fairness reasons following the embedded links is still allowed to robots, because a lot of projects [...] to get at least a few backlinks for their work, that might result in a better search engine positioning.   The patch can be downloaded from their site.
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Security experts are finding an increasing number of Web sites hosting malicious JavaScript code first detected on Super Bowl-related sites.
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Click-fraud menace spreads using IM Virus writers have crafted a malware threat that serves up expensive Google AdSense web pages related to mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.â¦
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Google on Thursday fixed a security flaw in its Web search service that could have allowed malicious hackers to modify its pages. According to a report posted to the Bugtraq Security Focus list on Wednesday
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Mozilla Corp. may add a tool to the next version of its Firefox browser that would block Web sites identified by Google as potentially harboring malware.
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Advertisements placed by Google in  Web pages are being hijacked by so-called trojan software that  replaces the intended text with ads from a different provider,  Romanian antivirus company BitDefender says.
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People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new security risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data.