Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites 58
alphadogg writes "In an effort to promote the 'general health of the Web,' Google will send Webmasters snippets of malicious code in the hopes of getting infected Web sites cleaned up faster. The new information will appear as part of Google's Webmaster Tools, a suite of tools that provide data about a Web site, such as site visits. 'We understand the frustration of Webmasters whose sites have been compromised without their knowledge and who discover that their site has been flagged,' wrote Lucas Ballard on Google's online security blog. To Webmasters who are registered with Google, the company will send them an email notifying them of suspicious content along with a list of the affected pages. They'll also be able to see part of the malicious code." Another of the new Webmaster Tools is Fetch as Googlebot, which shows you a page as Google's crawler sees it. This should allow Webmasters to see malicious code that bad guys have hidden on their sites via "cloaking," among other benefits.
Re:Google needs to clean up their own act first, (Score:4, Insightful)
An ordinary scam (like the Habbo one listed above) is different from a phishing attack (which requires that the attacker impersonates another entity).
You have absolutely no hard evidence (other than your own experience and cynicism) that the site collecting Habbo logins isn't doing so for purely honest reasons and will only use them to deposit 500 credits in each account submitted.
This comes down to a matter of trust. If you trust random people on the Internet, you're going to get screwed over.