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Google Safe Browsing Adds 'Repeat Offender' Category (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Google's Safe Browsing service will now brand sites which fall victim to malware repeatedly as "repeat offenders." When a site is identified as serving malware -- which usually occurs via an SQL injection attack or through auction-driven network advertising -- Google adds a "This site will harm your computer" tag to domain entries in its search results, and serves further warnings by way of interstitial pages. From today, sites which continue to succumb to attackers will not be permitted to resubmit their domain for consideration via Search Console for thirty days -- enough time to do significant SEO damage. That period does not include additional time for Google to respond to submissions about repaired sites and to remove the warnings.

18 comments

  1. Will they flag their own ads? by The-Ixian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems like a lot malware is still installed via malicious ads.

    Is the algorithm smart enough not to ding the site if it is Google's own ad network that is serving the malicious content?

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    1. Re:Will they flag their own ads? by A10Mechanic · · Score: 1

      So Google will flag Google, and for 30 days and 30 nights, a plague upon their own house? Awesome. You do have a good point about cleaning your own house before going hunting for other sites.

    2. Re:Will they flag their own ads? by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      So Google will flag Google, and for 30 days and 30 nights, a plague upon their own house? Awesome. You do have a good point about cleaning your own house before going hunting for other sites.

      More like Google will flag Alphabet, because all the ad companies don't fall under Google anymore, but the Alphabet group of companies.

      Of course, this will also mean every single web page will have the warning, since they all are repeat offenders....

      Heck, even Google's own AdSense distributed malware for Android phones.

      Of course, one could argue Alphabet is the largest malware distributor...

    3. Re:Will they flag their own ads? by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

      Can we have this in slashdot please just to spare me from having to read the replies before I click :)

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  2. Google Is An Enemy Of The People by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  3. Behaving ad networks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When a site is identified as serving malware

    The correct procedure would be to identify which ad networks are still allowing malware-based ads to slip through the cracks. It's been 20+ years, they really should behave by now.

    1. Re:Behaving ad networks by radja · · Score: 1

      ads ARE malware, there is no ad network that does not spread malware.

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  4. Google Safe Browsing is complete Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Google Safe Browsing, enabled by default in Firefox is just another excuse for all pages you visit to be logged and sent home to Google servers.

    Just go to about:config and search for 'safe'. Everything there needs to be disabled.

  5. Do we want to give this power to anyone ? by wellwhatever · · Score: 0

    What we know-

    Google works closely and silently with the TLAs .

    Google was "with Her->". Schmidt worked closely with Hillary to get her elected

    There is nothing from stopping any TLA, political party, popular movement, group of elites from acting as hand one- planting such malware - while Google acts as hand two- making it impossible to go to such sites or making sure 99% of people never do.

    Snowden showed us that there is no such thing as a tinfoil hat on the internet.

    The effective end result of such a campaign would be government / elite censorship disguised as "protecting you".

    This is not the first /. poll / question asking if Something Big should be done in the immediate wake of Trump's victory

    1. Re:Do we want to give this power to anyone ? by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You do realize that Trump is the very definition of the "elite" don't you? He has been in the top 1% all his life, being born rich. And now he is the part of the governmental elite as well.

    2. Re: Do we want to give this power to anyone ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      exactly not saying that should mater but its a bad argument.

  6. Victim blaming, guilty remain unpunished by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's not the sites that serve malware, it's their advertisers.

    Blame the advertisers, not the sites!

    1. Re:Victim blaming, guilty remain unpunished by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sorry Bubba, but the site serves the malware by providing the adverts.
      Ads ARE malware, mkay?

  7. I created this to stop that & more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Better than Google's efforts & addons APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?...

    Ads rob speed, security (malvertising) & privacy (tracking).

    Hosts add speed (hardcodes/adblocks), security (bad sites/poisoned dns), reliability (dns down), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) natively.

    Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.

    Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.

    Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)

    Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.

    Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).

    Gets data via 10 security sites.

    APK

    P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/... (Verified by Malwarebytes' S. Burn "seen the code & it's safe" http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi... )

  8. Better Trump vs. "Darth Soros" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Soros = Clinton's backer literally says he wants ruin USA who turned jews over to Hitler. He's a Jew himself. He do it to you with no regrets when he would sell out his own kind. A real Judas goat!

    Mr. Trump's also going to be OUR president. You put him down, you're of the SAME low ilk imo! Like it or not on your part, the law IS the law, and Mr. Trump won. Accept it! You, lose (or are you too above rules and law as Soros has said?).

    Soros is the worst kind, lurking in the background/shadows like a coward manipulating nations to ruin (very few folks realize what that loon does & is about - I'm here to inform you since you're obviously ignorant of him).

    Soros is known as the man who broke England's bank, tried to screw with the Russian and Polish economies (was banished literally from them too) ontop of dumping Thai currency and crushing other nations and is intent on burning down the US. He mainly does this through currency speculation and hedge funds.

    Soros the puppetmaster lunatic also literally said he's a God and that's one of the first signs of psychotic breaks with reality (Christ/God complex).

    Soros has also literally said rules do not apply to him as well.

    Soros IS Hillary's puppeteer. The MAIN one.

    A globalist puppeteer for sellouts like Hillary who is also backed by other globalist bankers (she is a globalist herself or is not the CFR/Trilateral commision/Bilderbergers (iirc feel free to correct me what pack of criminals she's part of) she's part of not an example of it along with the bungle that is NAFTA?) who we paid to bail out no less in her IMF banker backers!

    The same bankers we borrow money from, with interest, to pay down the national debt interest. That means we can never ever get out of it. It's a trap dumbo.

    Get it?

    Hillary's also the Benghazi Libya embassy liar who broke national security laws with classified documents in her hom with her crony Comey who obviously was coerced into his faulty investigation!

    So, rules and laws apparently don't apply to her either! Why give away immunity when nobody was at fault?

    You wanted blatant crooks, liars, and maniacs running things?

    The last LAWYER we had running the show's results are poor and for a lawyer she sure likes breaking laws (see Benghazi and her email server with classified information on it). We don't need another one in Hillary (she is one too).

    We need a businessman to fix the business of the USA for the good! Trump does business and from the looks of it, very well. He may have family money but he's built off it and built it up.

    That is FAR BETTER than "Darth Soros" who burns things JUST TO BURN THEM (see above on currency speculation games & literally stating he wants the USA out of his way + that's he's GOD... what a loon!).

    Trump's also going to help US workers by crushing H1B dumbass (which takes US jobs) as well as job creation by for example forcing Apple to make their machines here not China (which also takes our jobs)!

    He's rich but he's not out to help the rich get richer as his predecessors did while acting as our current upcoming president. Reminds me of JFK in fact (a good & great man, no doubt about it).

    APK

    P.S.=> When you're "Pro Hillary" you're pro globalist 1 world currency "beast 666 system" (you'd best hear what Rockefeller told Aaron Russo about that (Russo suddenly died too, go figure, ala "anyone gets outta line, we turn off their chip")) & perhaps worse, "Pro DARTH SOROS" you fool... he RUNS/OWNS Hillary. Birds of a feather stick together. They are hateful UNCLEAN birds.

    Soros the psychotic means NO GOOD FOR THE USA, & has said it - get your head out of your ass (you're pro PUPPET, as that's all Hillary really is - a puppet of globalist bastards that want to bust up the USA - especially George Soros)... apk