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Fake stores on other search engines

01

Sep

2011

A few weeks ago, I showed that even search engines focused on eliminating spam from their search results fail to remove spam pages leading to fake online stores. I was curious to get a broader pictures of how different search engines deal with this issue. Since the fake stores exist in several languages (English, French, […]

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Diginotar Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers

30

Aug

2011

Diginotar is a Dutch Certificate Authority. They sell SSL certificates. Somehow, somebody managed to get a rogue SSL certificate from them on July 10th, 2011. This certificate was issued for domain name .google.com. What can you do with such a certificate? Well, you can impersonate Google — assuming you can first reroute Internet traffic for […]

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Blackhat spam SEO trends in 2011

27

Aug

2011

My last post on Blackhat SEO spam trends was posted in December 2010. Things have changed quite a bit in 2011. Cleaner results in popular searches The main target of search engine poisoning used to be popular searches found in the Google Hot Trends list. In several instances, popular searches contained up to 90% malicious links in the […]

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