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

Posted by BeauHD on from the repeat-offender dept.

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.

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  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. 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.

  3. 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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