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Black Hat Attacks Spread Scareware

April 15th, 2009

Ford and Nissan are in trouble this week as a mass of spammy links showed up on Google result pages when searches were conducted for these and millions of other terms: Diagram Of A 1998 Nissan Pathfinder Blower Motor 1989 Nissan Pickup Voltage Regulator 2006 Nissan Skyline Gtr Vs 2005 Mustang Gt Cobra Youtube Where [...]

 
 

Google Trends a Hacker’s Paradise

October 7th, 2008

The concept of internet fraud and phishing is well known. Often hackers will resort to posing as eBay, a financial institution, or some other subterfuge to get banking information, credit card numbers or social security numbers out of unwary consumers. With the advent of news feeds, however, a new venue has opened up. Reports of [...]