Google, Bing: A hacker’s best friends
Last Updated on Monday, 2 August 2010 03:02 Written by External Post Monday, 2 August 2010 03:02
Security experts long ago noticed that powerful search engines like Google could be used as effective tools for ferreting out sensitive data about individuals.
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Google Researcher Issues How-To On Attacking XP
Last Updated on Friday, 11 June 2010 02:40 Written by External Post Friday, 11 June 2010 02:40
theodp writes ‘A Google engineer Thursday published attack code that exploits a zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP, giving hackers a new way to hijack and infect systems with malware. But other security experts objected to the way the Google engineer
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Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail
Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 April 2010 11:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 7 April 2010 11:40
schliz writes ‘Google condemns the Chinese Government for censoring its results, and Australia for planning to do the same. Meanwhile, its lawyers and security experts have told employees to ‘be intentionally vague about whether or not we’ve given access
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China Criticizes Google’s ‘US Ties’
Last Updated on Monday, 22 March 2010 03:20 Written by External Post Monday, 22 March 2010 03:20
krou writes ‘State-run news agency Xinhua has attacked what it calls Google’s ‘intricate ties with the US government’ amongst its high level officials, claiming that it’s ‘an open secret that some security experts in the Pentagon are from Google’. They
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Twitter is magnet for fakes, fraudsters and celebs
Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 04:30 Written by External Post Wednesday, 10 March 2010 04:30
You probably always suspected it, but online security experts at Barracuda Labs have confirmed that Twitter is overrun with fakers and fraudsters. The lab’s latest report on Twitter trends and tracking, web threats and trends, and e-mail spam and
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Google patches Buzz for Mobile security flaw
Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 08:00 Written by External Post Wednesday, 17 February 2010 08:00
It has been a rough week for the Google Buzz team. now that Google has made several changes, but security experts Tuesday discovered that the Buzz for Mobile service contained a security flaw that could allow hackers to run their own code on Google Buzz
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Experts Closing In On Google Attack Coders
Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 11 February 2010 07:00
ancientribe writes ‘The targeted attacks out of China that hit Google, Adobe, and other U.S. organizations are still ongoing and have affected many more companies than the original 20 to 30 reported. Security experts now say they are getting closer to
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Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort
Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 January 2010 06:45 Written by External Post Wednesday, 13 January 2010 06:45
CWmike writes ‘Google’s decision Tuesday to risk walking away from China (Um, the world’s largest Internet market) may have come as a shock, but security experts see it as the most public admission of a top IT problem for U.S. companies: ongoing
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