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Jun 19, 2012Google Discusses Its Safe Browsing RecordNo, this isn’t an advertisement for the benefits Google’s Chrome browser provides. Not even vicariously. Instead, the latest post over at the Google Security Blog is discussing the measures Google has taken to keep browsers safe through a n...
Apr 16, 2012Google To 20,000 Sites: You May Have Been HackedGoogle has been sending out a lot of messages to webmasters lately. A lot have been getting them based on questionable links pointing to their sites, in relation to Google’s cracking down on paid blog/link networks. Now, over 20,000 sites h...
Jul 16, 2009Bit.ly Starts Warning About Malicious LinksSince it became the default URL shortener for Twitter, Bit.ly has been growing like crazy. And as we learned from Spider-Man, with great power, comes great responsibility. Bit.ly has started warning users of potentially malicious sites, bas...
Feb 2, 2009Who picks the badware? Dispute erupts after Google glitchFor about 40 minutes early Saturday morning, a URL with a single forward slash was inadvertently checked into a list of potential malware sites operated by Google, with some help...maybe...from StopBadware.org. As a result, its search resul...
Jan 31, 2009Google Flags Whole Internet As MalwareWe’re not quite sure what’s going on, but a couple of minutes ago any search result from Google started being flagged as malware with a message stating “This site may harm your computer”. Including Google’s own websites as you can see above...
Jan 31, 2009Human Error Causes Google’s ‘Epic Fail’After what many were calling an epic fail by Google this morning, Marissa Mayer has published a post on the official Google blog apologizing for the inconvenience and dubbing the incident ‘human error’. This morning between 6:30 a.m. PST an...
Jun 25, 2008Report: majority of world’s malware originates from Chinareader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Stopbadware.org has released its May, 2008 report (PDF) on badware hosting and the geographical locations from which badware or...
Feb 4, 2008Google-backed group calls RealPlayer 'badware'The Google-backed firm that offers analysis of websites and software says users should steer clear of RealPlayer 10.5 and 11, but Real disputes their analysis. The site says that Real needs to more conspicuous about its intentions to instal...
Oct 11, 2007StopBadware Calls Malware Trends 'Worrisome'Malware on mainstream Web sites are becoming an increasingly larger problem as hackers are finding ways to infiltrate them, and place code that infects whomever visits the site. StopBadware.org co-director Jonathan Zittrain called the trend...
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