Big time Blogger exploit!
Phishing scams, user tracking, tojans, oh my!
If you use Blogger/Blogspot for your blog, you better read the full story.
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OK, so how does one protect oneself?
My first suggestion would be to do the Chicken Dance
I read the story quickly, but it sounds like this would all be up to Google to fix. I haven’t had time to look for any response from them yet, so I don’t know for sure.
“Big time Blogger exploit” is kind of a misleading title.
Seems to me the story is about scammers who use blogger.com simply because it is a recognizable domain name that people are likely to click. Some scammers put viruses and trojans on their pages, and others include a 1×1 pixel image hosted from another site (oldest trick in the book) in order to track users’ browser information.
There’s nothing for Google to fix or address, unless you suggest the change the name of blogger.com.