Google’s Malware Detection Broken

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

As of right now, it appears any google search you do will come up with all the same results as before.  What has changed is that it appears to be reporting that every site might contain malware (i.e. it shows the "This site may harm your computer" warning with every ...

Get IE8/Google Chrome Style Domain Highlighting in Firefox

Monday, January 26th, 2009

IE8 and Google Chrome both have a great feature that helps users detect phishing websites by highlighting the root domain when you browse to a page.  You can get this functionality in Firefox with an add-on called Locationbar that is available here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014 Screenshot:

Google shuts off antiphishing feature in Firefox 2.0

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner , ...

Google adds HTTPS-only browsing to Chrome

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Google has quietly released a pre-beta version of Google Chrome 2.0 with a new HTTPS-only browsing mode. The new feature lets users add “force-https to your Google Chrome shortcut” to only load Web sites with valid security certificates.   “Sites with SSL certificate errors will not load,” the company explained. The newest Chrome ...

Google Named No. 3 Spam Provider

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

According to this eWeek article, Google has been named the #3 spam provider in the world according to the most recent Spamhaus Statistics. They are stating the reason as "Spammers have had success cracking the CAPTCHA tests and creating Gmail accounts from which to spam. Because the spam comes from a ...