Inside Google's Anti-Malware Operation

Trailrunner7 writes "A Google malware researcher gave a rare peek inside the company's massive anti-malware and anti-phishing efforts at the SecTor conference here, and the data the company has gathered shows that the attackers who make it their business to infect sites and exploit users are adapting their tactics very quickly and creatively to combat the efforts of Google and others. While Google is still a relative newcomer to the public security scene, the company has deployed a number of services and technologies recently that are designed to identify phishing sites, as well as sites serving malware, and prevent users from finding them. The tools include the Google SafeBrowsing API and a handful of services that are available to help site owners and network administrators find and eliminate malware and the attendant bugs from their sites. Fabrice Jaubert, of Google's anti-malware team, said the company has had good luck identifying and weeding out malicious sites of late. Still, as much as 1.5 percent of all search result pages on Google include links to at least one malware-distribution site, he said."

Comments

Re:Details

[surmak]

That's about all the article says. It is amazingly information free. Anything else that is mentioned can be deduced by anybody who uses Google's services and has a bit of knowledge and the logic.

As I was reading it (yes, I know that is a cardinal sin on /.) It felt like there was going to be more in interesting information forthcoming, but there was never anything (other then use use of VMs) that was surprising in any way.

It would be nice if the editors would stop posting content-free stories.

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Google Groups Spam

[CondeZer0]

This is all nice and great, but it is quite pathetic that they can't fix all the spam in Google gropus, and isn't like it is rocket science, when exactly the same message with the same spam-link gets posed to hundreds of groups.