Friday, November 2, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Identity Theft,
Mobile,
Apple Macintosh,
Apple Inc.,
Google Inc.
The search giant is outgrowing expectations, while Apple releases its Leopard into the wild. Also: Finding some privacy on the Net. Google is big and getting bigger. Google's shares traded over the $700 mark this week, marking a new first for the Internet giant. Just a...
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Vulnerability,
Google Inc.,
Liam Tung,
Privacy,
Internet
Program developed by "ethical hacking" group takes advantage of cross-site scripting vulnerability to steal contacts, forward e-mail. Petko Petkov of "ethical hacking" group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming e-mails from Google Gmail users. "This can be used to forward all your...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Reuters,
Google Inc.,
Privacy,
Politics & government,
Canada
In complying with Canadian privacy laws, company would block image details of faces, license plates, other personal information. Google is considering a Canadian launch of its Street View map feature, which offers street-level close-ups of city centers, but would blur people's faces and vehicle license plates to respect...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Ryan Naraine,
Open source,
Google Inc.
Google's security team has released a fuzz testing tool that was used internally to find multiple vulnerabilities in Internet-critical software products. The fuzzer, called Flayer, is an analysis and flow alteration tool that has been used to find errors in real software. In the past...
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Google Inc.,
Web,
Vint Cerf,
Garett Rogers
It's a bit ironic that Vint Cerf is touting Google's infrastructure and warning users about unreliable software and poor security when both Blogger and Google Analytics were reported unavailable this week. To top it off, Google also recently pulled the plug on their paid video content services -- causing...
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Microsoft Windows,
Google Inc.,
Microsoft Windows Live,
Sales,
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.,
Larry Dignan
Notable headlines:David Morgenstern: The real question about Mac security. Ryan Naraine: Trend Micro, Zone Labs, ClamAV join list of insecure security products. Richard Stiennon : Not Constantinople. Again!Mary Jo Foley: Bill Gates seeks patent for ad-rebate program. Windows Live suite debuts ... on cell phones.AMD's sales chief to leave companyDan...
