Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Ever wondered what name is behind some obscure gmail address? Maybe your preferred gmail address was taken and you’re wondering who took it?
Here’s a cute vulnerability in the gmail system that comes from the strong tie-ins between gmail, the google calendar and all the other services.
Source:
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1113
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Google on Tuesday said it is now using an e-mail authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.Source:http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9985605-7.html?hhTest∂=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
A lot of people have used Google but few have any idea as to the complexity and computer power necessary to return billions of queries with millions of results all in under a second. This isn’t by accident, an oversight by Google or even due to security concerns, Google believes ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The judge hearing Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement claim against Google has ordered its YouTube unit to provide user histories.Google has to turn over millions of videos it has removed from the video-sharing site, user login IDs, records showing when users watched videos, their IP addresses, and numbers that identify ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
I got forwarded this link today from businesswire about how Google and Yahoo are now going to be armed with the information necessary to look at and extract information out of SWF files. Ho-boy, here we go. The link was sent to me with the “bad juju” caveat, and I’m ...
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