As of posting time, a Google search of the phrase techcrunch crunchies yields as its first result a blacklisted result for the 2009 Crunchies award page (crunchies2009.techcrunch.com). The details page shows that on September 28 (yesterday) Google found malware distributed on this subdomain of TechCrunch.

This result gives you an opportunity to see how a real, blacklisted site looks on Google. If you do click on the link for crunchies2009.techcrunch.com (it's safe; don't worry) you'll go to a Google roadblock page that reads,

Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!
Suggestions:
Return to the previous page and pick another result.
Try another search to find what you're looking for.
Or you can continue to http://crunchies2009.techcrunch.com/ at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found,...

There's a lot in the news right now about the malware distributed from what may be as many as 5,000,000 parked Network Solutions pages. In addition to the earlier article, here's a nice summary from Brian Krebs, and here's one from Elinor Mills of CNET.

The story originally broke from VeriSign Trust Services partner Armorize in a detailed two-part blog (part two here) with a subsequent, also detailed, follow up. In...

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) just announced its Online Safety 2010 Honor Roll, on which only 8% of the 1200 analyzed companies made the list. The OTA evaluated these 1200 sites based on their usage of e-mail authentication standards, Extended Validation SSL Certificates, and the presence or absence of malware on their public-facing sites. OTA also reported that more than 26% of the Internet Retailer 500 and top 100 financial services companies have adopted EV SSL Certificates. Here's what the Wall Street Journal had to...

Yesterday I discussed the possibility of Presidential campaigns being phished. This article in SC Magazine explains the criminal activity we already have seen in this arena.

The essence of the story is that anti-virus software vendor Webroot just in the past few days announced that is had detected malware attacks against major Presidential campaigns. Reports SC Magazine,

the campaign websites of Obama, a Democratic senator from Illinois, and Paul, a Republican representative from the 14th Congressional District of Texas, have been spoofed as part of online scams.

The article goes on to say,

"We initially saw these types of spoofs...