Man Mails More Than 97,000 People Their Password

With great regularity on websites like Pastebin stolen passwords and other credentials posted. The reason for a programmer named Julian alias' aTechDad 'to collect all kinds of stolen email addresses and passwords via a script and then warn the user.

For example, some Internet users use Google Alerts or other services to warn if their data appear anywhere on the internet.Most Internet users may not know such services exist and users who know there is much that their data would rather not leave you in this kind of party, said the programmer. He therefore decided to create a script, which he in a three-day period on Pastebin 97 931 combinations of email addresses and passwords collected.

Last month, he decided to warn users. Through a simple e-mail, he said that the account of the user probably was compromised, which he also co-stared the password. The nearly 98,000 sent emails yielded only nine thanked by. 100 e-mails could not be delivered, while 41 people sent back a request to be unsubscribed. Yet Julian considers the experiment a success. At this time he started a second experiment, in which he has already collected 300,000 passwords. "I might do it again," said the programmer.

Google Analytics Will Warn Websites For Malware

To protect Internet users from malware Google now also goes websites that use Google Analytics to warn when there is detected malicious code in them. The Internet giant warned websites that the Google Webmaster Tools were notified.

Alert program is now expanded to websites that use analytics from Google. Websites will in the case of malware automatically alerted via so-called "Google Analytics Notifications", including the pages are specified. This way, webmasters can take faster and more effective action to remove the malicious code from their website.

Google Warns Of Sites With Unwanted Software

Google warned users of the search engine and Chrome all if they want to download malware or visit websites that attempt to install malware, but now the browser and search engine also show a warning when users arrive at websites that offer unwanted software.

This involves software that affects the Internet, for example, by adjusting the start or showing additional ads on websites. In the case of Chrome displays a prominent warning that explains the underlying website better can not be visited. To prevent Internet users through the search engine on these sites let reach Google Search now see signs that warn of this kind of misleading websites.

Finally, Google also has begun to turn off ads that lead to this kind of unwanted software. "We are constantly working to protect people on the Internet," says Google software engineer Lucas Ballard. Webmasters are advised to log on their website for the Google Webmaster Tools. This way Google can alert the webmaster if there are issues found on the website that people lead to unwanted software.