War beneath the web (Guardian Unlimited)
November 12th, 2009
Hacking websites used to be a way to show off. Now, as Charles Arthur reports in our series about online security, it’s a lucrative crime – committed on an industrial scale The email from Google in June was the first sign: it warned that the Free Our Data site seemed to be host to a set of hidden spam links – or as Google put it, “techniques that are outside our quality guidelines”. It took more …
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War beneath the web (Guardian Unlimited)