Turns out that it’s surprisingly easy to game: It appears that news sites deemed legitimate by Google News are being modified by third parties. These sites are then exploited to redirect to the spam content. It appears that the compromised sites are examining the referrer and redirecting visitors coming from Google News. Powered by WPeMatico
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A decade ago, I wrote about the death of ephemeral conversation. As computers were becoming ubiquitous, some unintended changes happened, too. Before computers, what we said disappeared once we’d said it. Neither face-to-face conversations nor telephone conversations were routinely recorded. A permanent communication was something different and special; we called it correspondence. The Internet changed … Read More “Defense Against Doxing” »
Google’s Project Zero is serious about releasing the details of security vulnerabilities 90 days after they alert the vendors, even if they’re unpatched. It just exposed a nasty vulnerability in Microsoft’s browsers. This is the second unpatched Microsoft vulnerability it exposed last week. I’m a big fan of responsible disclosure. The threat to publish vulnerabilities … Read More “Google Discloses Details of an Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerability” »
Google’s new ways to violate your privacy and — more importantly — how to opt out. Powered by WPeMatico
In December, Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt was interviewed at the CATO Institute Surveillance Conference. One of the things he said, after talking about some of the security measures his company has put in place post-Snowden, was: “If you have important information, the safest place to keep it is in Google. And I can assure … Read More “Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not from Them” »