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Loading...Google Improves Messaging in Search Console
It now gives webmasters more information when their site is hacked.
Google’s Safe Browsing program is one of the most effective tools keeping users safe from phishing, malware, and other web threats. While surfing the web, you have undoubtedly seen the full screen vivid-red warnings telling you there is danger ahead.
But for web developers and system administrators, dealing with an infected site is very different. To help admins restore their site, there is an entire suite of Safe Browsing tools living with Google’s Search Console (formerly known as Webmaster Tools) dedicated to security.
Last week, Google expanded Safe Browsing to make it even easier for webmasters to resolve security problems.
The update brings more detailed explanations of “six different security issues detected by Safe Browsing,” including malware, deceptive pages, and harmful downloads. Safe Browsing also offers “tailored recommendations for each type of issue, including sample URLs that webmasters can check to identify the source of the issue, as well as specific remediation actions webmasters can take to resolve the issue,” wrote Kelly Hope Harrington, an engineer on Google’s Safe Browsing Team.
In the screenshot above you can see how the updated Safe Browsing security tool identifies the specific threat and location on your site where it was found.
Earlier this year Google published research about the effectiveness of different notification methods when a site is discovered to have been compromised. Their research found that notification through Search Console was the most effective; 82.4% of webmasters who were registered with Search Console cleaned up their site, compared to less than 55% who were contacted through a WHO.IS email or had their site flagged in search results.
In August, Mozilla’s Firefox browser expanded their integration of Google’s Safe Browsing program. Firefox 48 will analyze downloaded files and compare them to Safe Browsing’s potentially unwanted software and uncommon downloads databases. This will help prevent users from downloading malware and deceptive files, such as a fraudulent or infected version of popular freeware.
If you are not yet using Google’s excellent and free Search Console tools, I highly recommended signing up as soon as you can. It is one of the best resources out there and what better way to keep with your site’s status on Google search than with a tool from Google?
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