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At the same moment I posted about a XSS issue in Mitre[2] -that uses the Google search appliance- Giorgio Maone was bloggging about something similar but on the website from Symantec[1]. Might there be a pattern here? I thought that Google had fixed all the cross site scripting issues and problems with the proxy stylesheet? Or did they never patched their clients? or did their clients never patched them self?  read more »

In the previous post, we talked about hacked www.myphonegames.co.uk and the malicious site http://xvgaoke.cn. However, MyPhoneGames is not the only one that is hacked to load scripts from http://xvgaoke.cn. This simple Google search query shows more hacked sites, which load scripts and pages from http://xvgaoke.cn. Here's a snapshot of search results:  read more »

Theory: If all advertisers from Google lose trust in Adwords, Google would be ruined, because an estimate is that 99% of Google's revenue lies in Ad serving. That is around $6 billion-a-year. If webmasters stop making use of Adsense, Google loses a big network to serve ads, which means also drop in revenue. Either way, they will be screwed.Google remains the great friendly search giant for most. Who doesn

Well, I don't know if anyone remembered this, or follows it. But the month of the search engines bugs is well on it's way now. 16 disclosures has been made so far. Ranging from Google to smaller search engines. Vulnerabilities include: XSS, HTML Injection, redirection issues.Check 'em out: