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Google Glass eBay Auction Hits $90,000 Before Being Removed
Apr 18th
The augmented reality eyewear yesterday turned up on auction website eBay. The listing reached $90,100.00 after receiving 28 bids, but was canceled due to Google’s terms and conditions, which state that Google Glass can’t be resold once obtained.
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4 Steps to Take After a Google Manual Penalty is Removed
Apr 14th
The same activities that were responsible for ascending to number one in the SERPs were also responsible for your manual penalty. So now what? It’s time to acquire high value editorial links. Here are some of the best methods for doing so.
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WATCH: Google Now Shows Live Examples Of Spam Removed From Its Search Results
Mar 1st
In Google’s new How Search Works, Google is showing real live examples of spam that was recently removed from their search index. Most of these examples are of pure spam, as Search Engine Land founding editor Danny Sullivan explained in his write up, Google Charts “Manual Actions” Against…
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The death of SEO and why keywords are possibly being removed to push paid … – Tnooz
Feb 12th
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50 Million Pages Removed From Google This Year Due To DMCA Piracy Reports
Dec 31st
We know that the number of DMCA requests have risen since Google introduced its Pirate Update, a penalty against sites that have an unusual number of legitimate DMCA requests filed against them. But what’s the count? TorrentFreak.com did the math and counted that Google took down over 50…
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Google: Disavowing Links Isn’t Replacement For Also Trying To Get Them Removed
Oct 30th
Many SEOs cheered that Google’s new disavow links tool would make it easier to recover from a bad backlink profile. No more worrying about directories charging to remove links or trying to get out of bad link networks. But Google says it does want to see a good faith effort to go along with…
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Google Removed The Pirate Bay From Instant Search
Sep 10th
TorrentFreak reports Google has removed The Pirate Bay from showing up in Google’s search suggestions within Google Instant Search. Google Instant Search will auto-complete the search phrase based on search popularity and other factors. Prior to today, Google would auto-complete for the…
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Site Performance, Subscriber Stats & Robots.txt Tool Removed From Google Webmaster Tools
Apr 25th
Google announced they are removing three features from Google Webmaster Tools. Google made the announcement on the Google Webmaster Central blog saying the three features going away include the site performance report, the subscriber stats and the robots.txt creation tool. Google placed reversed…
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Yahoo’s Bay Bridge Billboard Removed After 12-Year Legacy
Dec 22nd
Iconic Yahoo billboard taken down via the Associated Press reports that Yahoo’s “iconic” billboard has been taken down after 12 years of standing tall and proud on the highway as you approached the Bay Bridge. The billboard space is managed by Clear Channel and currently is being…
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22 SMS Malware Apps Reach Android Market, Removed by Google
Dec 12th
Android malware continues to evolve. The latest batch takes a two-pronged attack at users susceptible to downloading free games and can end costing victims a lot of money. Lookout Mobile Security reports that these apps, dubbed RuFraud, are pirated clones or add-ons of popular games and other apps designed to send premium SMS messages without users consent.
This is not the first time we have seen pirated apps deliver Android malware. Nor is it the first time that the tactic of sending premium SMS messages has been used by malicious coders.
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Lookout informed Google of nine RuFraud apps in the last week, all of which were removed by Google from the Android Market. Overnight, the malware makers posted another 13 apps that have also been pulled.
Basically, these apps have hidden terms of service and obscure permissions that trick the user into downloading a version of a popular game for free that will have the SMS access permission hidden in the code. Lookout says that the apps affected European users and did not affect North American users. The malicious apps know where a user is based off their SIM cards.
Sophos Security notes that the hackers also use what could be seen as Black Hat SEO tactics but on an application store level. Essentially, the games are pirated versions that many users know and trust. For instance, the cloned games are named Angry Birds FREE, Cut the Rope FREE, Great Little War Game FREE etc. The publisher, according to Sophos’s Naked Security blog is named Logastrod and made “trojanized” verions of the apps. Here is a screen shot from Naked Security about the permissions one of the apps requesting.
Estimates on downloads of these apps range from 10,000 (Sophos) to 14,000 (Lookout). Sophos notes that these types of apps easily get through to the Android Market because the cost of becoming a developer in the Android Market is less than what a malicious hacker could make by putting these apps in the wild, even if they were only available for a short amount of time.
The nasty bit about these apps are how the malicious links are buried inside the ToS. It is hard to tell if an app is malicious at first glance because on permissions but it is always best to be safe and check an apps permissions before downloading it. Why does Cut the Rope need SMS permission?
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