Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO
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Excerpt: Dear Microsoft (cc: black hatters),If you don't fix this problem, I promise to make a sport out of getting people I don't like delisted from your index. It's just plain irresponsible. And the problem is compounded in scope by another defect in your product -- the failure to h ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Cloaking
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Excerpt: Since I got my 10 links, I can now post again. Needless to say, until then, I had a bit of free time. What do you think I was doing?Let me tell you. I decided to do an objective investigation as to whether cloaking is alive and well in "the" Google image search. It ...
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Excerpt: We all have a mischievous side. I know I do. And in that vein, I have a great idea for a PubCon or SES segment. I'd appreciate some feedback in the form of comments if you'd like to see such a segment. Then I can approach Danny Sullivan or Brett Tabke with the idea:Ti ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Security
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Excerpt: I guess I think like a hacker, because I thought of this before seeing RSnake's post about finding vulnerabilities with Google Code Search.If you want to find lots of PHP-based web applications that are likely vulnerable to HTML injection, try this search out:lang:php (print\(|echo)\s\$_(GET|REQ ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: I'm a sinner! I violate Google's TOS daily. But the guy standing next to me on Yom Kippur made me look like Jill Whalen! He was a spammer -- and a pretty devious one at that. Some of it was muffled by the sounds of unfed stomachs growling for forgiveness, but I manage ...
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Excerpt: This recent article mentions that XSS and HTML injection are quickly eclipsing the traditional stack smashing and SQL tainting attacks in popularity. But why? I posit that the reason is simple -- XSS & HTML injection vulnerabilities are frighteningly trivial to find. I will dem ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Security, Spam
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Excerpt: I was playing around with the What is Hosted on that IP? tool I just published, and some of what I found is a bit scary. I see cases where there are a few relatively legitimate sites nestled on the same IP with hundreds of spammy sites. Needless to say, this is a liability.Suppose I am a ...
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Excerpt: People have too much faith in Google – even when doing so implies a violation of the principles of computer science. Many Google-oglers have contended that Google can find applications of JavaScript redirect cloaking with ease. I'm not a PhD in Computer Science, but I doubt the ...
