Competition for dominance of search engine rankings is turning sour as rival companies sabotage each other's Web sites to trick search engines into mistakenly believing them to be spam sites.
Google's purchase of GreenBorder Technologies -- a browser virtualisation software company -- follows on the heels of the search giant announcing a blog from its antimalware team.
Drive-by downloads, in which malicious Web sites exploit browser vulnerabilities to execute malicious code, have increased since April 2007, warned Google researchers have warned.
Recently fixed vulnerabilities in Sun's Java Runtime Environment and Adobe's Flash player mean that unpatched systems are vulnerable and could be infected with spyware or recruited into a botnet by simply visiting a Web page with exploit code -- and Google last month warned that 10 percent of Web sites contain this kind of malicious code.
Google has started warning people when search results could potentially lead them to malicious code.
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The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?
Google's recent announcement of Android has sparked a debate over whether the mobile Linux platform will prove more secure than Apple's proprietary iPhone.
You can't hear them and you can't see them, but be warned, bots are all around us and they do have a search-and-destroy attitude that could be the death of your business.
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