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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. But it's not a problem by syousef · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Try telling Ebay or Paypal that there's a problem. All they do is flood you with propaganda about how they're keeping you safe.

    After a bad experience I closed my Paypal account and only use Ebay for small purchases.

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  2. Question do Sys Admins by pembo13 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do any of you guys actively block IPs and IP blocks of phishing sites? And also those "fake domains" which just have search results? If so, how is that working out?

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    1. Re:Question do Sys Admins by joshier · · Score: 0, Interesting

      Thanks for this, I've got it setup now.

      Do you know of any form of email spam blocking software or filters I can use?.. I use opera, thunderbird and evolution mail.

      Thanks

    2. Re:Question do Sys Admins by speculatrix · · Score: 4, Interesting

      opendns is a copycat of the verisign adware dns trick... it's hoping to achieve success by relying on the many ISPs who are clueless when it comes to running effective dns resolvers.

    3. Re:Question do Sys Admins by Arimus · · Score: 2, Interesting

      You turn it off if you have a static ip address...

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  3. Check out the whitelist by tecker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Either Google is really paranoid or they have yet to find a site to put on the whitelist that was linked to.

    See for yourself what I mean Nothing there.

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  4. Good help for fishing actually ... by perenaurel · · Score: 3, Interesting
    from: a post on full-disclosure:
    I just played around a bit with those lists and as it seems,
    Google did a splendid job, even capturing some people's login data.
    Like here:
    http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?version=g oog-black-url:1:7753

    Regards,
    J.M.
    Professional Lurker

    Google have fixed this link now but that was funny, most of the logins/passwords were for gmail accounts...
  5. Good Experience with Paypal by drewzhrodague · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Am I the only one that has had a good experience with Paypal? I mean, yah normal banks can handle a deposited check, but they also charge a monthly fee. Paypal OTOH cuts me a check for *interest*, and that is ontop of the 1.5% cash back they offer. I can sell junk on EBay, and take my PayPal card right to the liquor store. That's the best banking scenario I can imagine!

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