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Re: CNET is Serving Malware
From: Glen Roberts <glenroberts () me com>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:35:04 -0500
Agreed, Robert. I believe many issues are likely the ads and/or comments. Glen Roberts On Jul 1, 2012, at 19:28, Arch Angel <arch3angel () gmail com> wrote:
I check a known bad site I came across which was due to ads, and wondered the same thing about CNET. It could also be from comments people have left that they don't filter. Either way its obvious that its there :-) -- Thank you, Robert Miller http://www.armoredpackets.com Twitter: @arch3angel On 6/20/12 11:20 AM, Mike Patterson wrote:On 12-06-20 8:03 AM, Glen Roberts wrote:This morning while researching Google’s five-year anniversary of providing malware protection, I found evidence that CNET is serving up malware to its site visitors to the tune of 151 exploits, 64 trojans and 22 bots. The malicious software is hosted on internet-safeness.ru and publictivity.com appears to be an intermediary for distributing malware to site visitors. I have notified CNET of the problem but it’s pretty concerning that another CBS property is making the news again for being insecure. It was only a few days ago that the Last.fm password hashes that were dumped made the news. Here is the link you can use to take advantage of Google’s insight into sites serving malware: http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=cnet.com. Just replace the parameter with the site you want to inspect. I recommend you check out the sites you manage and visit using Google’s tool. I've posted a screenshot here: http://www.internetgeneral.com/cnet-serving-malware/One might be inclined to wonder, as I did, if it's CNET itself serving up the malware, or an ad network that's been popped. Mike_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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Current thread:
- Re: CNET is Serving Malware Arch Angel (Jul 01)
- Re: CNET is Serving Malware Glen Roberts (Jul 01)
- Re: CNET is Serving Malware Arch Angel (Jul 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: CNET is Serving Malware Herndon Elliott (Jul 02)
- Re: CNET is Serving Malware Glen Roberts (Jul 01)