Tweet Week: May 2-8, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Thousands of Hacked Sites Seriously Poison Google Image Search Results
This investigation began a few weeks ago, when I came across the following two threads in website security forums:
[badwarebusters.org] Lately I have been seeing a huge increase in the number of hacked sites appearing on google image search results that redirect to a fake Av scanner. more »»
[Google Webmaster Help] google image search results often has multiple infected / malware sites on the first SERP page. more »»
This is a well known problem. I blogged about such SEO poisoning attacks several times here. This time I decided to check what’s behind the reported increase in malicious image search results.
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Tweet Week: July 12-18, 2010
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
nginx as reverse proxy, WP redirects on MediaTemple, Image search spam … »»
Tweet Week: April 26 – May 2, 2010
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Reviews of security tools, web spam and poisoned Image search results »»
Hackers Abuse Servage Hosting to Poison Google Image Search
Two weeks ago I blogged about serious security problems of Network Solutions‘ shared hosting service. This time I’ll turn to another big shared hosting provider – Servage.
It’s not the first time I write about Servage. Actually this will be the 4th article in the series about rogue blogs on Servage network. It all started in November when I wrote about malicious blogs created in subdirectories of legitimate websites. The blogs poisoned Google search results for millions of relatively unpopular keywords (the long tail) redirecting visitors to scareware websites. In the second article, I showed the history of those rogue blogs (the first generation have dates in April of 2009) and how most of them (90%+) were found on Servage network. In the third article, I wrote about the internals of those rogue blogs and their malicious features.
A few days ago I found a new generation of rogue blogs on Servage network.
Here are the details …
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