Anonymous, the hacktivist group most famous for a series of DDoS (denial of service) attacks on a range of major websites in December of last year, was banned from the Google+ social network for community standards violations.
Examining three common attacks that can hurt your visitors and rankings, and tips on how to prevent your site from being hacked.comScore March 2011 Search Engine Market Share [Infographic] by Danny Goodwin
XSS attacks involve three parties: XSS scripting attacks happen when you leave your website open to script injections. When it comes to XSS scripting attacks, leaving your site vulnerable can lead to very expensive IT -- and potentially even legal...
Ways to Protect Your Site From SEO Attacks by Gary-Adam Shannon Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of March 13 to 19, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
In fact, it is clear now that over the course of the weekend, several attacks were carried out on that server by different individuals or groups. The attacks on zFire's server and database continued throughout the weekend.
A senior executive at Mozilla - creators of the Firefox browser - attacks Google, Microsoft and Apple for the hidden plugins they install in to Firefox without users knowledge. Search Engine Optimization
One of the latest PDF attacks took advantage of an Adobe Reader vulnerability that was recently patched. Targeted Phishing Attacks Each of these types of social engineering attacks operate by enticing people to make an interactive choice, infecting...
And there's little wonder why the so-called "Aurora" attacks are drawing so much interest; the attacks were focused in part on the Internet's most popular search engine (as well as more than 30 other large corporations).
And of course, last week's DoS attacks exposed just how vulnerable . Twitter Suffers More Downtime, Attacks Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 12, 2009 Twitter went down again, and a message on their Status page points to another attack: Update (12:17p...
Yesterday's DoS Attacks Included Google, Possible Cyberwarfare Suspected Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 7, 2009 As news broke yesterday about the Denial of Service (DoS) attacks affecting Twitter, revelations began to unfold about how widespread...
The Patriot Act, passed shortly after the Sept.attacks, broadly expanded the government's powers to conduct anti-terrorism investigations. Yesterday controversial elements of the Patriot Act were ruled unconstitutional by federal district court...
Google Blogger Attacks Sicko, BacktracksA Google blogger tried to rally healthcare advertisers against Michael Moore's latest documentary, Sicko, by advising them that they should increase their presence in the search results.
But it doesn't begin to explain why journalists and bloggers seem fixated on the news search engine that Krishna Bharat, a principal scientist at Google, created in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks to keep him abreast of developments.
The programs then use the computers to send out mass-email spam and/or for "internet attacks. Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately:
The programs then use the computers to send out mass-email spam and/or for "internet attacks. Tune-in by listening to this MP3 file, listening via WebmasterRadio at 11:30am Eastern and repeated at 2pm Eastern Tuesday through Friday, via our
Peter Da Vanzo has posted information on XSS Redirects XSS and Redirection Attacks, which makes for a nice and interested educational read and Moveable Type Backlink Exploit that makes me a little depressed (running MovableType and all).
Graham was unable to say whether the outages were caused by any kind of malevolent attacks, but AOL has certainly not been making friends lately with its CertifiedEmail program. AOL is right now in the midst of a massive, system-wide e-mail outage...
Trusted-Search Service Attacks Internet Fraud. The study, a joint effort between Jupiter Research and iProspect, surveyed 636 qualified search marketers and 224 search agencies, probing for specific practices and methods used in the overall search...
Is Google Exposing You to Hack Attacks? Unless webmasters understand what they are and what to do about them, their websites could easily trigger a penalty, losing traffic and revenue. A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members...
Library of Congress puts record of Sept.attacks online. The longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members goes into more depth on privacy issues and looks more closely at how ads will be rotated and targeted.
