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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. Re:This one made me cry a little inside by jasonwc · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just loaded http://zeta-os.com/astats/bankofamerica/ on Firefox 2.0.0.1 using Firefox's built-in phishing detector using Google to provide the blacklist ["Check by asking Google about each site I visit" option]. It loaded the site just fine, without any warning.

  2. Here is a site that has a lot of IPs by VGfort · · Score: 5, Informative

    Banned IP Address - a lot of them are spammers or fake bots that will look around your website and fill your forms in the attempt to spam you or your forums/blog or whatever else you might have