Browsing tag
A nasty search hijacking malware which targets Apple MacOS devices, was spotted in the wild by security firm AiroAV last week. It can be used for MITM attacks on these devices. What’s different about the malware is its love for Microsoft, which is more than Google. It injects results from Bing when the user searches […]
Internet search engines have evolved exponentially since the start, leaving behind its function of merely looking for words. According to web application security course specialists from the IICS, the development of these tools has reached the point where the user can search Google: “What is the height of the tower in Paris? ” and the […]
Microsoft has announced that it is open-sourcing a crucial AI tool behind its Bing search engine. This tool enables Bing to quickly return relevant search results to user queries. The company has open-sourced its AI algorithm called Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG) that can parse data more efficiently. Earlier, performing a web search was […]
Update (Jan 25, 2:00 AM IST): Microsoft’s search engine is back online in China after the outage. The news comes from Bloomberg which also reported that the Chinese government didn’t impose any ban on Bing as known earlier. People were unable to access Bing due to some technical issue that has now been resolved. The […]
Microsoft search engine Bing served child pornography images when asked for it, according to an investigative report from AntiToxin. In fact, the popular search engine even suggested additional search terms on typing in queries that led to more illegal images. Researchers at AntiToxin, a security firm that excels in building technologies to protect people against abuse, […]
Cyber Criminals abusing Bing Search results to delivery dangerous Malware when users try to download Google Chrome via Bing from brand new Windows computer. Attackers deliver the malware using phishing site and it was appearing top of the result once user search as “Download Chrome” and it leads to land the phishing page that exactly […]
In early 2018, Google’s move of removing the “View Image” button from the image search results might have broken the hearts of many. Particularly those who rely on the platform to source images for their different needs. The change was the result of an agreement Google had with Getty Images over the display of copyrighted […]
If you’re among the internet users who visit a search engine to open software download sites (basically everyone), you might want to hold your hands before moving further. That’s because any innocent software download advertisement could be hiding malicious apps or adware. Bleeping Computer spotted a fishy Chrome advertisement when using Bing search engine. The […]
Defeating Google’s audio reCaptcha system with 85% accuracy. Inspiration Across the Internet, hundreds of thousands of sites rely on Google’s reCaptcha system for defense against bots (in fact, Devpost uses reCaptcha when creating a new account). After a Google research team demonstrated a near complete defeat of the text reCaptcha in 2012, the reCaptcha system […]
Search results will now show both multiple prospects and multiple sources, culled of a list of pre-approved data sources, to show Bing users various sides of issues ranging from the benefits and downsides of kale to the pros and cons of controversial political issues. This builds on an advanced feature, announced back in September, in […]
Listing subdomains about the main domain using the technique called Hacking with search engines. Usage usage: n4xd0rk.py [-h] [-d DOMAIN] [-i IP] -o OPTION -n SEARCH [-e EXPORT] [-l LANGUAGE] This script searchs the subdomains about a domain using the results indexed of Bing search. optional arguments: -h, –help show this help message and exit […]
Sublist3r is a python tool designed to enumerate subdomains of websites using OSINT. It helps penetration testers and bug hunters collect and gather subdomains for the domain they are targeting. Sublist3r enumerates subdomains using many search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu, and Ask. Sublist3r also enumerates subdomains using Netcraft, Virustotal, ThreatCrowd, DNSdumpster, and […]
Google and Microsoft have vowed changes to their web indexes which will make life harder for Users looking for unlawful, copyrighted material. The parties that signed the deal include search providers Google and Microsoft (Bing), and rights holders Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Through the terms of the arrangement, web […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has open sourced some major components of its Bing search engine. These parts include a “baby search engine” named BitFunnel, a tool for preparing text to be used in BitFunnel, and a just-in-time C compiler. While these projects are currently in the nascent state, we can expect them to benefit Bing’s development (and developers outside […]
Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar business mostly ran by Google, Yahoo or Bing via AdSense-like programs. The current generation of clickbots such as the Redirector.Paco Trojan have taken abuse to a whole new level, burning through companies’ advertising budget at an unprecedented pace. This paper is based on research carried by Bitdefender antimalware researchers Cristina Vatamanu, Răzvan Benchea and […]
Short Bytes: Bing has updated its Bing search engine with a unique feature that provides executable code directly in the search results. This has been made possible as a result of a partnership between Microsoft and HackerRank. Microsoft has partnered with the programming community website HackerRank to bring executable code snippets into Bing’s search results […]
Short Bytes: Search Engine is a software that allows the display of relevant webpage results based on the search query input by the use of Web Crawling and Web Indexing, some fat formulae and intelligent algorithms in order to gather the appropriate data. A few thousand searches were made in the time this webpage got […]
In the beginning of this month, Microsoft released the public version of their latest operating system Windows 10, which has already been installed on more than 75 million different devices despite of its ever-rising privacy and security reports about snooping on users. Due to Microsoft’s privacy, Torrent trackers have now started to put a ban […]
Short Bytes : Bing search is deeply integrated in Windows 10 and you can’t change this search engine from your Cortana desktop search. Answering this problem, Bing2Google extension for Chrome does this in just in a click. Windows 10 was rolled out on July 29 and people have upgraded their PCs using the free upgrade […]