Friday, January 29th, 2010 Google has recently launched an "experimental new incentive" that could reward security researchers for their bugs in the Chrome browser (all versions - stable, beta, and dev) or in the open source Chromium project itself. Their base reward is identical to Mozilla's at $500, but they are offering a higher ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Last night Google started rolling out the change that enables the "Always use https" feature of Gmail by default. This is a great change to finally see because any little bit helps.Source:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.html
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Friday, December 11th, 2009 Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft's search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt."I think judgment matters," said Schmidt. "If you have something ...
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Google has launched a Dashboard service that's designed to show how much the search engine giant knows about its users online activities.The service provides a summary of data associated with a specified Google account. Users gain the ability to view and manage data, which ranges from search engine queries and ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009 Google's free online newsgroup Google Groups hosts plenty of harmless user-generated content. But like any service that allows users to post information, it also turns out to be useful for "misuser-generated content."A Symantec security researcher has found that Trojan malware is using Google Groups to fetch commands for directing its ...
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