Tag: google
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Google delists all .co.cc domains from its index
Large fraction of sites deemed ‘spammy or low-quality’. Google has removed all sites running on subdomains of .co.cc from its search engine index as the company believes too large a fraction of them are used for spam or are otherwise of low quality. co.cc uses the top-level domain of the Australian territory of the Cocos…
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Google acquires Zynamics
Internet giant buys into security. Internet giant Google has acquired software analytics firm Zynamics , it was announced yesterday. The German company, which was founded in 2004 by CEO Thomas Dullien (aka Halvar Flake) to research the automation of reverse engineering and code analysis, now produces four reverse-engineering tools: BinDiff , VxClass , BinNavi and…
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Android SMS trojan goes wild
Premium-rate text scam shows growing cracks in smart phone security. The first known SMS trojan affecting smart phones running Google ‘s Android operating system has been observed in the wild, highlighting growing cracks in the security veneer of the latest range of glossy smart phones. The trojan was first identified by researchers at Kaspersky Lab…
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Morphing PDFs in new SEO poisoning trick
Harmless documents replaced by web pages containing malicious code. Researchers at F-Secure have discovered a new SEO poisoning trick in which attackers put harmless PDFs on a website to raise the site’s profile in web searches but, after the site has been indexed by search engines, replace the PDFs with web pages containing malicious Flash…
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Security holes trouble vendors
Vulnerabilities fixed in McAfee website and Google Chrome; patch expected for Adobe Reader. A range of vulnerabilities have been causing headaches recently for companies including security vendor McAfee , the Internet browser arm of Google and PDF reader giant Adobe . McAfee came in for criticism when it was discovered that McAfee Secure – the…
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Google shows off in-house browser beta
Open-source ‘Chrome’ promises security as well as efficiency. Ever-expanding web giant Google has released an early version of its own browser, developed in house but under open-source principles, with a number of built-in security systems and techniques supplementing new ideas for speed and efficiency. The browser, dubbed ‘ Chrome ‘, will include alerts from Google…
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China hosting over half of malicious sites
StopBadware.org report highlights Chinese dominance in web malware. A report from StopBadware.org released last week found that 52% of malicious websites were hosted in China, with the US the only other major player in the field with 21%. The report was compiled from the list of active malicious sites flagged by Google ‘s Safe Browsing…
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Spammers turn to DoubleClick for open redirect
Loophole in Google’s AdSense solved, but new flaw quickly uncovered. The good name of web giant Google continues to be a popular source of legitimacy among spammers, despite their efforts to shut down loopholes open to abuse. Last month, Google fixed an open redirect in its AdSense ad serving program. The open redirect had become…
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Google Groups and Blogspot used to serve malware
Company finds own IP address to be serving most malware. Malware writers have created thousands of Google Groups with the sole purpose of serving malware, Sunbelt reports . On the Groups pages, visitors are shown several images with explicit pornography, as well as what looks like an embedded YouTube video. However, when clicking on the…
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‘Search engines should do more to fight malware’
85% of users think that search engines should be doing more. According to a recent poll, 85% of visitors to the VB website think that search engines should be doing more to fight malware, but experts say the matter is more complicated than that. A recent paper by researchers at Google revealed that more than…