Google has announced the launch of a brand new Webmaster Tools feature called Security Issues, which shows verified webmasters info concerning the security issues on their sites (in one place), and permits them to find problems faster with detailed code snippets and request reviews for all issues in a single new process.

Google’s Meenali Rungta and Hadas Fester say in a joint blog post at the Webmaster Central blog, “We know that as a domain owner, discovering your site is hacked with spam or malware is stressful, and attempting to clean it up under a time constraint may be very challenging. We’ve been working to make recovery even easier and streamline the cleaning process — we notify webmasters when the software they’re running on their site is obsolete, and we’ve arrange a dedicated help portal for hacked sites with detailed articles explaining each step of the method to recovery, including videos.”

“Now, when we’ve detected your site could have been hacked with spam or with malware, we’ll show you everything within the same place for simple reference,” they are saying. “Information that was previously available within the Malware portion of Webmaster Tools, in addition to new information regarding spam inserted by hackers, is now available in Security Issues. At the Security Issues main page, you’ll see the kind of hacking, sample URLs if available, and the date after we last detected the problem.”

Google says that it’ll attempt to show webmasters HTML and JavaScript code snippets from the hacked URLs when ever possible, and recommend actions to assist freshen up the issues.

Feedback in regards to the feature was overwhelmingly positive up to now.