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How Google detect phishing site
Apr 4th
02 April 2010.
Google analyzes millions of pages per day when searching for phishing behavior. This kind of activity is, of course, not done by people but by computers.
The computers are programmed to look for certain things that will identify the page as a phishing site. Those things are actually the same things that users should check when evaluating if a page is legitimate or not.
According to a post on Google’s official online security blog, the first step is looking at the URL- Does it contain words like “login” or “banking” or trademarks of the phishing target? Does it use an IP address for its hostname? Does it have a large number of host components, making the address unusually long? If the answer is yes to all of these questions, the page could be a phishing one.
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Spies and hackers exploit world cyber rule void
Feb 25th
William Maclean, Security Correspondent
Reuters
Feb 22, 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61L37B20100222
LONDON (Reuters) – The best weapon against the online thieves, spies and vandals who threaten global business and security would be international regulation of cyberspace.
Luckily for them, such cooperation does not yet exist.
Better still, from a hacker’s perspective, such a goal is not a top priority for the international community, despite an outcry over hacking and censorship and disputes over cyberspace pitting China and Iran against U.S. firm Google.
Nations are thinking too parochially about their online security to collaborate on crafting global cyber regulation, an EastWest Institute security conference heard last week.
Policy statements from governments around the world are dominated by the need to heighten national cyber defenses. As a result, too many cyber criminals are getting a free ride.
“Nations are in denial,” a cyber law expert told Reuters, saying national legislation was of limited use in protecting users of a borderless communications tool.
“It may take a big shock of an event to wake people out of their complacency, something equal to a 9/11 in cyberspace,” he said referring to the 2001 coordinated attacks on U.S. cities.
With a quarter of humanity connected to the Internet, cyber crime poses a growing danger to the global economy.
More >SURVEILLANCE : Google Toolbar tracking users when ‘disabled’
Jan 30th
We’ll ignore this window if you close it
By Cade Metz in San Francisco
Posted in Security, 27th January 2010 00:28 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/27/google_toolbar_caught_transmitting_data_when_disabled/
Google has updated its browser toolbar after the application was caught tracking urls even when specifically “disabled” by the user.
In a Monday blog post, Harvard professor and noted Google critic Ben Edelmen provided video evidence* of the Google toolbar transmitting data back to the Mountain View Chocolate Factory after he chose to disable the application in the browser window he was currently using.
The Google toolbar offers two disable options: one is meant to disable the toolbar “permanently,” and the other is meant to disable the app “only for this window.”
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