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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