Microsoft Yanks Security Site Poisoned With Porn

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, 2011 @08:47AM from the internet-is-for-porn dept.

CWmike writes "Microsoft disabled the search tool on its Safety & Security Center on Saturday after attackers poisoned results with links to pornographic URLs. The company restored the website's search field early Monday afternoon ET. Alex Eckelberry, the general manager of GFI Software's security group and CEO of Sunbelt Software, said search poisoning is not unusual — but this is different. 'This is crafty,' Eckelberry said. 'This isn't normal search poisoning. It's poisoning the results with actual searches. Users were getting back a prior search as a search result.'"

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Feature by Sonny+Yatsen · 2011-07-11 08:48 · Score: 3, Funny

That's not poisoning the results. That's a feature.

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Yank and porn in the title by Capt.DrumkenBum · 2011-07-11 08:57 · Score: 3, Funny

Well done.

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Re:Poisoned? by jhoegl · 2011-07-11 09:05 · Score: 3, Funny

Depends on the porn. I dont really wanna see grandma in her panties. Do you?