Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Google has released Keyczar, billed as a "Toolkit for safe and simple cryptography", under an Apache 2.0 open source licence. Keyczar has been developed by members of the Google security team and aims to make cryptography more accessible to application developers.Keyczar's design goals were to manage the complexity of cryptography ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008 A security researcher at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Saturday demonstrated a tool he built that allows attackers to break into your inbox even if you are accessing your Gmail over a persistent, encrypted session (using https:// versus http://).When you log in to Gmail, Google's servers will ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Facebook users are being targeted by malicious hackers through postings on the popular Wall section of the social-networking site, security companySophos said Thursday.The Wall, a core feature of Facebook profile pages, is used by members to leave each other messages that in addition to text can also contain photos, videos, ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Google’s webmailer Gmail has an apparently* new filter function named “Never send it to Spam”. Ticking this should ensure that a certain email – with criteria you define, like by entering your friend’s name in the “From” field – will not be accidentally sorted into the spam folder. It’s a ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008 "Gmalware" may be coming soon to your iGoogle page.In two weeks, at the Black Hat Conference on Wednesday, Aug. 6, Cenzic senior security analyst Tom Stracener and security researcher Robert Hansen, better known as "RSnake," plan to demonstrate a zero-day vulnerability that affects Google Gadgets."At the core of the talk ...
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