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 :-)
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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
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