Study: Malicious Search Results More Common In Bing & Image Search

This seems like a dubious conclusion that two thirds of bad URLs are on Bing. Sohpos is detecting bad urls that appear in Bing, but perhaps there are also lots of bad urls on Google, but Sophos just isn’t detecting them. This could happen if Google is better at listing new urls, such as new urls created by botnets to spread malware. Any security strategy that relies on lists of known threats is pretty much doomed to fail. Current malware technology generates new urls on the fly, so by the time something is blacklisted it’s old news. The attacks being launched today are using new urls that haven’t been seen before. Apparently Sophos is catching yesterday’s attacks, which is a lot better than what Bing can do, and somewhat better than Google. This news isn’t reassuring for either search engine. In my view the gold standard for threat detection is Damballa. They recently iden...

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@Dymphie » 13 Oct '12, 10am
Malicious Search Results More Common In Bing & Image Search [link] Beware what you click on in image search
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Bing should really get on their malware issues. [link]
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Bing yields more malware, same for image searches. [link] [link]
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Malicious search results found more on Bing? (I think we need more data) [link] #Bing
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That is why we use Google... :P Study: Malicious Search Results More Common In Bing & Image Search [link]
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Where are most malicious search engine links found? Image search. Click carefully [link]
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#Google improving security but #Bing has some work to do: [link]
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Hopefully Bing can find ways to determine the good from the bad as far as image search goes: See attached.... [link]
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Study: Malicious Search Results More Common In Bing & Image Search (Matt McGee/Search Engine Land) [link]
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Bing contains the most SEO poisoned malware redirects. Sophos reports-65% from Bing, 30%from Google&5% from others [link]
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Something to think about before you click on search results, especially if you use Bing. [link]
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