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Tag Archives: google
Google glitch causes confusion
This morning, an apparent glitch at Google caused nearly every [update 11:44 am] search listing to carry the "Warning! This site may harm your computer" message. Users who attempted to click through the results saw the "interstitial" warning page that … Continue reading
Tagged google, stopbadware
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Openness versus consumer protection? Android, iPhone, and transparency
If you follow news about the Android mobile phone platform, you may have seen recent allegations of malware against a third party application available on Google’s Android application market. It’s unclear whether or not the application in question, MemoryUp, was … Continue reading
Tagged android, apple, generativity, google, iphone, transparency, zittrain
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New bots, more badware sites?
In recent weeks, a new worm known as Conficker/Downadup has been making the rounds, turning many (reportedly millions) of PCs into bots. At the same time, the number of badware sites Google has reported to us has been steadily increasing, … Continue reading
Tagged botnets, google, stopbadware
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October infected network stats
In June we released "a report":http://www.stopbadware.org/home/badwebs with numbers from late May, showing the network blocks containing the largest numbers of badware sites reported by Google. We released updated in "July":http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/07/30/updated-infection-stats and "August":http://blog.stopbadware.org/2008/08/25/top-infected-network-blocks-for-mid-august. Here is another update from early October: |_.# … Continue reading
Top infected network blocks for mid-August
In June we released “a report”:http://www.stopbadware.org/home/badwebs with numbers from late May, showing the network blocks containing the largest numbers of badware sites reported by Google. In July, we released “an udpate”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/07/30/updated-infection-stats. Here is another update from mid-August: |_.# of badware … Continue reading
Updated infection stats
In June we released “a report”:http://www.stopbadware.org/home/badwebs with numbers from late May, showing the network blocks containing the largest numbers of badware sites reported by Google. Here are updated numbers from early July: |_.# of badware sites |_.AS block name | … Continue reading
Tagged aol, endurance, google, stats, stopbadware
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Byet Update
About a month ago, I “blogged”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/05/07/taking-a-byet-out-of-badware about a hosting company called Byet Internet Services: bq. A few days ago, the team at Byet Internet Services contacted us. It seems they came across our list of the top 10 infected IP … Continue reading
Tagged byet, google, stopbadware
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Google’s new resource for owners of compromised sites
Google has rolled out a new resource for owners of compromised websites that it flags as potentially dangerous in its search results. “Google Diagnostics”:http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/05/safe-browsing-diagnostic-to-rescue.html shows information about malware and malware-distributing behaviors that Google has observed on the site within the … Continue reading
Tagged google, hacking, resources, webmasters, websites
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Taking a Byet Out of Badware
A few days ago, the team at “Byet Internet Services”:http://byethost.com/ contacted us. It seems they came across our “list of the top 10 infected IP addresses”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/04/05/infections-stats-for-march-2008 from March and saw one of their addresses listed. It turns out this is … Continue reading
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StopBadware Closed for Winter Break
Due to Harvard University’s winter break, StopBadware will be closed from Friday, December 21 to Wednesday, January 2. During this time, we urge website owners whose sites have been flagged with Google’s malware warnings to request reviews of their sites … Continue reading
Tagged google, reviews, stopbadware-
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