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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Google Has Been Breached! Times are good for Hackers

According to the Security Fix, a glitch in a computer security program embedded deeply into Google's search engine briefly prevented users of the popular search engine from visiting any Web sites turned up in search results this morning. Instead, visitors were redirected to page that warned visitors: "This site may harm your computer."

Calls and e-mails sent to Google were not returned as of publication. I will update this blog if and when I hear back from them about the cause and length of this incident. The problem, which appears to have been corrected by the time of publication, was related to Google's "Stop Badware" program, which is designed to keep Internet users from visiting sites that Google's bots have found try to install malicious software when users browse the sites.

Google watch out time are getting hard and your pockets are awfully deep with information, that competitors might want. However this was more that likely a hacker seeing how far they could go before stopping the site or they might have got what they wanted. We will never know unless it happens again. Hopefully this won't cause my blog depends on it. lol but serious!

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