SEOs and SMMs have been watching the work of Charlie Miller for quite awhile now – as has everyone but the most devout apostles of Apple that will not admit there are a few (to be kind) flaws with Apple’s design and programming in – pretty much everything they produce. That isn’t mean spirited. It [...]
Charlie Miller and Apple – Hero or Hacker?
November 25th, 2011App Infections – The Malware Epidemic
August 7th, 2011It is estimated that about 1 of every three smartphones and tablets will encounter malware over the course of the next year – and that figure holds true with Apple carrying an equitable part of the share. Apple users are vulnerable, but it is the Google open mobile platform that is getting flat out hammered [...]
Google a Malware Hotbed?
August 2nd, 2010A report released by Barracuda labs seems to indicate that Google has the worst track record when it comes to malware in search results. According to the report: Overall, Google takes the crown for malware distribution – turning up more than twice the amount of malware as Bing, Twitter and Yahoo! combined when searches on [...]
China Chafing Over Google ‘Unfairness’
October 28th, 2009The People’s Daily, which is the main newspaper of China’s Communist Party, is claiming that Google censored their website. Apparently, the paper ran an article about a Chinese group which suggested Google’s book search settlement might violate the rights of Chinese authors. According to publishers, Google retaliated by adding a malware warning to search result [...]
New Google Malware Detector
October 15th, 2009According to the Google Webmasters blog, Google has built scanners that detect malware on indexed websites to help protect users against malware threats. Warnings now show up to warn of pages identified as dangerous by these scanners, and the Google friendly browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari) also use the data to alert users to [...]