Thursday, December 11th, 2008 The Google Chrome browser is no longer a beta, and has been outfitted with a coat of security armor Google hopes will both protect users and help Chrome compete with rival browsers.The toughest piece of that armor involves sandboxing. In Chrome, HTML rendering and JavaScript execution are isolated in their ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Google's social-networking website Orkut has been used to spread a malicious Trojan, says Websense.According to an alert from the security firm, the hoax message, which has been received by a number of Orkut users and is written in Portuguese, looks like it comes from a lonely Orkut member looking for ...
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008 We've seen some speculation recently about a purported security vulnerability in Gmail and the theft of several website owners' domains by unauthorized third parties. At Google we're committed to providing secure products, and we mounted an immediate investigation. Our results indicate no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability.With help from affected ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008 Is it possible for someone to create a malicious filter without having access to your Gmail username and password? No, however, they can force you to create the filter without your knowledge.The blogosphere is buzzing about a Gmail Security Flaw that has caused some people to lose their domain names ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008 With the news that Google's Android shipped with an embarrassing security hole being followed by a simple two-step method to 'jailbreak' the OS, you'd think that the company had ironed out most of the remaining bugs – but you'd be wrong.According to ZDnet's Ed Burnette, the open-source Linux-based smartphone platform ...
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