Google expands Webmaster tools with ‘first aid after hack’

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Google has its Webmaster tools and added information about how a site administrator can best act as his visit has received from hackers. It also provides business tips to the security sites to tighten.

The ‘first aid information’ that Google provided to potential victims of hackaanvallen consists of a series of articles, step-by-step, and tutorial videos. In providing the information makes Google distinguish between three common reasons for hackaanvallen: spamming, phishing, and malware distribution.

Under the heading ‘help for hacked sites” is not only described what steps can be taken to make sites more secure, but also how a site is cleaned up can be as attackers malware have left behind. Google refers to in his articles to various tools that it has available for webmasters. So it can be checked if the administrator still has full access to the hosting environment and whether there have been changes in the domain information.

Google also focuses on other areas to improve the security of software and websites. For example, the hackers in some cases money if they have a vulnerability can show in, for example, the Chrome browser.