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Over 500,000 Google Chrome Users Affected by Malicious Extensions

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Google has just recently removed four extensions from the Chrome Web Store after they were discovered to be malicious. The extensions, which already had over 500,000 downloads, were used to carry out click fraud and SEO manipulation. The malicious extensions were discovered by researchers from ICEBRG, a Seattle-based internet security company when they investigated spikes […]

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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: #NoHacked: A year in review

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We hope your year started out safe and secure! We wanted to share with you a summary of our 2016 work as we continue our #NoHacked campaign. Let’s start with some trends on hacked sites from the past year. State of Website Security in 2016 First off, some unfortunate news. We’ve seen an increase in

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Updates to the Google Safe Browsing’s Site Status Tool

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We’ve just launched a new version of the Site Status Tool that provides simpler, clearer results and is better designed for the primary users of the page: people who are visiting the tool from a Safe Browsing warning they’ve received, or doing casual research on Google’s malware and phishing detection. The tool now features a

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