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Blackhat SEO spam is a global problem

If you have wondered whether to switch your go-to search engine for another – perhaps more localized? – in order to avoid the seemingly ubiquitous poisoned search …

Mozilla, Tor Project, Yahoo targeted through DigiNotar attack

Following the admission that the rogue SSL certificate that allowed attackers to impersonate Google was missed by auditors and that several dozen other certificates were …

Google blacklisted 247 additional DigiNotar certificates?

New versions of Chrome and Firefox have been released today by Google and Mozilla due to the discovery of a rogue Google SSL certificate being abused in the wild. DigiNotar …

Rogue Google SSL certificate missed by auditors

VASCO Data Security International – the owner of DigiNotar, the Dutch Certificate Authority who issued the rogue SSL certificate for *.google.com domains that has …

Rogue Google SSL certificate allowed MITM Gmail attacks

Recently discovered attempts of an SSL man-in-the-middle attack against Google users – spotted by a number of Iranian Internet users – have revealed that Dutch …

Google servers as a DDoS tool

Google’s servers can be used by cyber attackers to launch DDoS attacks, claims R00T_ATI, a penetration tester for Italian security consulting firm AIR Sicurezza. He …

Google search results much cleaner than in 2010

It used to be that among the first ten pages of search results for popular terms, up to 90 percent of the offered links would take the users to a malicious page serving …

Malware targeting Android jumps 76 percent

The amount of malware targeted at Android devices jumped 76 percent since last quarter, to become the most attacked mobile operating system, according to McAfee. 2011 has also …

Google+ introduces verified accounts

Google is adding another feature that should guarantee that a Google+ profile corresponds with the actual real-life identity of a user. “We’re starting to roll out …

Trojanized Android app intercepts messages to hide costly subscriptions

Another trojanized Android app that monitors received text messages for keywords has been uncovered by Trend Micro, and this time, the feature is not used for spying but to …

Keeping abreast of Web malware delivery techniques

One of the crucial things that Google must do to keep making Internet users use its search engine is to keep an eye on the many ways that cyber criminals employ to spread …

Your name as a Google AdWord

It used to be that advertisers were forbidden from using proper names as Google AdWords, but not anymore. Forbes writer Kashmir Hill discovered that while searching her own …

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