Following up on my last post, after filing a complaint with the abuse department of privacyprotect.org (and blogging about the problem), I have just received an update noting that:
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On investigating on your complaint , we have determined that the domain name “SPYWARESAFE.NET ” is in violation of the terms of usage of the Privacy Protect [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
On the (dis)merits of privacy
Taking down a malicious site – the good, the bad, and the ugly…
As part of the “closure” on the February Malicious Page of the Month, which involved meoryprof.info (taken down), and spywaresafe.net we have contacted the appropriate parties in order to notify them that these websites contain malicious code.
Meoryprof.info was the first to buckle (probably under the press exposure), but spywaresafe.net have managed to stay afloat for [...]
Optimizing Cross Site Scripting – and general security practices
We have been working recently on a XSS attack that impacted a huge number of potential victims, as the attack itself has been “optimized” by SEO (Seacrh Engine Optimization) practices that pushed it to Google’s indexes.
In itself, this is not a new technique, but the sheer size of it made us take a second look [...]