Google kicks off Chrome plan to mark all HTTP pages as "Not secure"
From January, Google’s Chrome browser will start telling its one billion users that pages on an unencrypted HTTP connection are not secure.
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Baffled by tanking Google traffic? Safe Browsing now has better answers
Google has rolled out more detailed explanations for why a site has been labelled as risky to visit by Safe Browsing and better answers for how to fix the problem.
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T-Mobile caught in crossfire of injected ad war with Flash Networks
LAS VEGAS - An ongoing conflict between website owners and ad injectors who place unwanted ads on those websites has just flared up into full-blown war, with advertisers and carriers caught in the crossfire.
Maria Korolov | 04 Aug | Read more
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Report: Malvertisers now using SSL redirects
Advertising networks have gotten better at spotting malicious downloads embedded into advertisements, so criminals began using redirects, even chains of a dozen redirects or more, to keep their malicious ads from being detected.
Maria Korolov | 16 Jul | Read more
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Scammers bypass Google filters with PDF cloaking
Scammers have long used cloaking as a technique to drive up search engine rankings, stuffing webpages full of keywords and links that make them attractive to Google, but not to actual readers.
Maria Korolov | 07 Jul | Read more
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ICANN: data breaches not due to new top-level domains
An ICANN spokesman dismissed accusations that the recent growth in the number of generic top-level domains has caused data breaches, on Thursday.
Maria Korolov | 16 Dec | Read more