Selected Tweets (Oct-Nov 2011)
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
It has been a while since the last Tweet Week. The main reason is I don’t tweet that often now to post my tweets every week and I don’t want to post old news here either.
So what happened? The answer is I can’t get used to Twitter web interface – it is so inconvenient. I had to use it when I had some strange problems with my Twitter client (twhirl). Thank’s god, I’ve finally made my twhirl work so I hope I will be able to tweet more often.
Anyway, here are some of the latest tweets.
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Two Tweet Weeks: May 16-29, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
SEO poisoning, canonical hacks, SmartScreen, WordPress, Facebook clickjacking …
Unmasking “Canonical” Hacks
As a follow up to the recent Matt Cutt’s tweet and blog post about emerging rel=canonical hacks, I did a detailed guest post on StopBadware blog about this problem.
In that article, I wrote about how such hacks work and how cyber-criminals can use this hard-to-detect attack to hijack search results of compromised sites. You can also find a short review of a real “rel=canonical” attack that affected quite a few websites.
As always, I wrote about tools and techniques that can help you diagnose hacks that try to make Google think that your site has moved to a new domain name. Unfortunately, at this point no tools that I know of specifically check for rogue “rel=canonical” instructions. However, more universal file integrity monitoring solutions can be really efficient as they will inform about any unexpected modifications.
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