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Stories about: black-hat SEO

McAfee Reveals the Riskiest Search Keywords Given the increasing trend of cybercrooks using black-hat SEO techniques to push their malicious pages higher on search result pages, security researchers from global antivirus vendor McAfee decided to determine the most dangerous popular search keywords for 2008. According to their recently released report (PDF), co... 28 May 2009 04:29 GMT Searching for Rihanna's Leaked Pics Leads to Malware Security researchers warn that cyber-criminals are trying to profit from the public interest raised by the recently leaked photos allegedly featuring pop singer Rihanna in compromising postures. By hosting malicious content on heavily trafficked social networking websites, they successfully forced their Rihanna-theme... 11 May 2009 04:40 GMT Cyber-Criminals Take Advantage of Gmail Downtime Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro maintain that during the few hours of Gmail downtime, cyber-crooks have moved fast to instrument a malware distribution attack, which employs black-hat SEO and social engineering techniques.The fact that cyber-criminals capitalize on important events in order to ... 26 February 2009 05:50 GMT