Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Every time I turn around, Google's come up with something new, cool, or innovative. It's no wonder it has Microsoft on the run.
Nifty Google Features
Calculate This: You can use Google Calculator to crunch numbers and figure out conversions. Try entering 12*12 and see what happens; you can also run more ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Just one day after a security researcher showed how Google Inc.'s Firefox toolbar could be exploited in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in the Google Desktop.On Thursday, Google hacker Robert Hansen posted proof of concept details showing how attackers could use Google Desktop to launch software ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Popular Firefox browser plug-ins are not doing enough to secure their software, a security researcher has said.Many widely used Firefox extensions, including toolbars from Google, Yahoo and AOL do not use secure connections to update themselves, according to Christopher Soghoian, a security researcher who blogged about the issue.Soghoian is best ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Hundreds of users have clicked through to a Google AdWords advertisement offering to infect users with a virus, according to a blogger.The experiment, run by Didier Stevens, a blogger who says he works for the consultancy group Contraste Europe, is the latest, if slightly puzzling development to reinforce the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Internet search engines are now one of the commonest means by which malware spreads, a new study has suggested.The study carried out by McAfee?s spyware expert Ben Edelman using the company?s SiteAdvisor tool, analysed common searches on all the Net?s major search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask.The ...
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