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Tiger Woods (Searches) Not to Be Trusted
Tiger Woods’ personal life and marital affairs have attracted constant attention from the press and has certainly damaged his public reputation.  With his return to the Masters, Nike has released a new commercial in an effort to rebuild Woods’ image.  This compelling commer ...
Posted 08 April 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: malware , blackhat seo , pagerank bomb , rogue av
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Cinderella Story Leads to March Madness Malware
The first week of March Madness has brought about many compelling stories, with a good deal of upsets and bracket busters. The most newsworthy of these has been the University of Northern Iowa’s ousting of #1 overall seed Kansas. This ‘Cinderella’ story has deservedly gotten a grea ...
Posted 22 March 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: blackhat seo , malware , rogue av
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Hotmail Users Look for Answers in Dangerous Places
An outage of the Windows Live ID service affected a large number of MSN users today, including users of the popular Hotmail email service. Hotmail is one of the largest web-based email outlets and not surprisingly news of the outage spread quickly as users were not able to access their email. Th ...
Posted 17 February 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Blackhat SEO , PageRank Bomb , Rogue AV , Fake AV , Rogue Anti-Virus
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Super Bowl associations: football, nachos, big screens and … malware?
The Super Bowl is the one of the biggest and most watched television events of the year in the United States. People everywhere scour the internet looking for predictions, gambling spreads and news before the event and scores, stories and clips after the event. In anticipation of the increased ...
Posted 19 January 2010 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Blackhat SEO , PageRank Bomb , Web Security , Rogue AV , Google Search
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Boeing 787 searches hijacked by rogue anti-virus
Today, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet completed its much awaited first flight. As users searched to find videos and news articles related to the story, blackhats quickly moved in for yet another attack against Google search results. The most popular search for several hours today was “787 fi ...
Posted 16 December 2009 by Patrick Walsh
tags: Web Security , Rogue AV , Google Search , Blackhat SEO
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Blackhats Unleash Fake Blog Campaign Spreading Rogue AV
In September, eSoft reported as many as 720,000 compromised sites hosting fake blog pages and being used to distribute rogue anti-virus programmes. Many of these sites are still active and continue to plague searches with malicious results. Earlier today, Cyveillance issued this report of a nearl ...
Posted 18 November 2009 by Patrick Walsh
tags: web security , compromised sites , rogue AV , malware
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