Google to Display Warning on Harmful Sites
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 11/10/2016 12:25 PM
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Worried about landing on a malware site? Google, Chrome and Firefox will begin displaying a full page warning on sites that offer up malware, unwanted software or phishing pages.
Google normally conducts a review process if the site is harmful. But crafty cyber-criminals will just fix the issue for a while until Google takes down the warning before putting it back to harmful.
“Repeat Offenders are websites that repeatedly switch between compliant and policy-violating behavior for the purpose of having a successful review and having warnings removed,” said Brooke Heinichen, of the Google Safe Browsing Team. “Once Safe Browsing has determined that a site is a Repeat Offender, the webmaster will be unable to request additional reviews via the Search Console for 30 days, and warnings will continue to show to users. When a site is established as a Repeat Offender, the webmaster will be notified via email to their registered Search Console email address.”
The web browsers will not apply the warnings to sites that have been hacked. They plan only to address the sites that are purposefully harming visitors.
Source: Info Security
Google normally conducts a review process if the site is harmful. But crafty cyber-criminals will just fix the issue for a while until Google takes down the warning before putting it back to harmful.“Repeat Offenders are websites that repeatedly switch between compliant and policy-violating behavior for the purpose of having a successful review and having warnings removed,” said Brooke Heinichen, of the Google Safe Browsing Team. “Once Safe Browsing has determined that a site is a Repeat Offender, the webmaster will be unable to request additional reviews via the Search Console for 30 days, and warnings will continue to show to users. When a site is established as a Repeat Offender, the webmaster will be notified via email to their registered Search Console email address.”
The web browsers will not apply the warnings to sites that have been hacked. They plan only to address the sites that are purposefully harming visitors.
Source: Info Security
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