Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Microsoft has dropped its nearly three-month-long pursuit of Yahoo, ending a historic acquisition attempt whose failure takes Microsoft back to square one in its quest to boost its online business to better compete against Google.
"We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo and the market ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Google Adwords account holders are being targeted by criminals out to trick them into handing over credit card information using a clever URL spoof that has gained popularity in recent weeks.
On the face of it, the scam follows a traditional attack route involving the sending of spam e-mail to random ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
One of the more useful Google advanced search features is the date filter, which limits results to recent pages. Results can be limited to the past day, week, month, year, etc. Google’s Matt Cutts and GoogleOperatingSystem wrote about it late last year.
You can access the search via the URL as ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
There's another round of mass SQL injections going on which has infected hundreds of thousands of websites.
Performing a Google search results in over 510,000 modified pages.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The SANS Institute has uncovered what they've termed a "rare gem" as far as computer security investigations go that sheds new light on how up to 20,000 Web sites have been hacked since January.
They found a sneaky software tool that uses Google's search engine to hunt for Web sites running ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Yahoo has begun indexing the World Wide Web with its third-generation software, Slurp 3.0, the company said Monday.
"With everything now in place, the rollout has officially begun," Sharad Verma and Yoram Arnon said in a posting to Yahoo's search blog on Monday.
Unlike top search rival Google, which on Friday revealed ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Google on Friday said that it has been testing ways to index data that is normally hidden to search engine crawlers, a change that should improve the breadth of information available through Google.
The so-called "hidden Web" that Google has begun indexing refers to data beyond static Web pages, such as Web ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said Friday.
Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense, said the bot broke Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Security researcher Billy Rios has discovered a vulnerability in Google Spreadsheets which attackers can exploit using links to crafted tables to steal a user's cookie. According to Rios, the victim has to follow such a link in Internet Explorer. The stolen cookie can be used to access all Google services ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Billy Rios has discovered a vulnerability in the Google Code service which could be exploited to steal passwords from developers who have registered on the site. The Google Security Team has since fixed the vulnerability.
Rios succeeded in gaining cross-domain access by uploading a crafted Java applet to a project on ...
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