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Is Your Site Hacked? New Message Center Notifications for Hacking and Abuse
As we crawl the web, we see bad content inserted on to thousands
of hacked sites each day. The number of sites attacked is staggering
and the problem is only getting worse. Hackers and spammers target and
successfully compromise any sites they can - small personal sites,
schools and universities, even multinational corporations. Spam attacks
against forums and user content sections of sites, though not as
shocking, are even more widespread.
You may have read in an earlier post that we've begun notifying webmasters about new software versions via Webmaster Tools
to help protect their sites. Continuing with our effort to provide more
useful information to webmasters, we're happy to announce that we'll
soon be sending even more notifications to the Message Center.
Starting this month, we will notify more webmasters of more potential issues we've detected on their websites, including:
- Spammy or abused user-generated content
- Abused forum pages or egregious amounts of comment spam
- Suspected hacking
These notifications are meant to alert
webmasters of potential issues and provide next steps on how to get
their sites fixed and back into Google's search results. If
it pertains to a hacking or abuse issue, the notification will point to
example URLs exhibiting this type of behavior. These notifications will
run in parallel with our existing malware notifications.
A notice of suspected hacking, for example, will look like this: Read More
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