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A Tour of the Google Blacklist

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the taking-down-names dept.

WienerPizza writes "Michael Sutton takes us on a tour of the Google blacklist, a list of suspected phishing sites. He finds that eBay, PayPal and Bank of America combined account for 63% of the active phishing sites. Amusingly, he also reveals that Yahoo! has a nasty habit of hosting phishing sites that harvest — you guessed it — Yahoo! credentials!"

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  1. What I find Irritating by tecker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What I find irritating is when i try to go and visit one of these sites, usually not the phishing sites but "know malware sites", it does not provide you a link. You are given the link in a text form and it is not the most handy of ways to get there.

    Dear google, Thanks for keeping me safe now can I go on? No? Why not? Oh because "you are keeping me safe" and you blacklist is perfect and knows what I shouldnt visit.

    I want to be able via my google account to add or remove sites (blacklist, whitelist or even better graylist [hey you be careful in there, its got spyware all over it. Just click through])

    Let me guess the feature is a "beta"

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