CNET is Serving Malware

[Glen Roberts <glenroberts () me com>]

This morning while researching Google’s five-year anniversary of providing malware protection, I found evidence that 
CNET is serving up malware to its site visitors to the tune of 151 exploits, 64 trojans and 22 bots. The malicious 
software is hosted on internet-safeness.ru and publictivity.com appears to be an intermediary for distributing malware 
to site visitors.

I have notified CNET of the problem but it’s pretty concerning that another CBS property is making the news again for 
being insecure. It was only a few days ago that the Last.fm password hashes that were dumped made the news.

Here is the link you can use to take advantage of Google’s insight into sites serving malware: 
http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=cnet.com. Just replace the parameter with the site you want to inspect. 
I recommend you check out the sites you manage and visit using Google’s tool.

I've posted a screenshot here: http://www.internetgeneral.com/cnet-serving-malware/

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