New Google bugs empower phishermen

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Google's Gmail service suffers from security flaws that make it trivial for attackers to create authentic-looking spoof pages that steal users' login credentials, a security expert has demonstrated. Google Calendar and other sensitive Google services are susceptible to similar tampering. A proof-of-concept (PoC) attack, published by Adrian Pastor of the GNUCitizen ...

Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at ...

Google announces Google Chrome web browser

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Google has confirmed that it is launching Google Chrome, a new web browser. Rumours of a Google browser project had been around since 2004, but a posting on the Blogoscoped site has turned those rumours into something much more tangible. It reported on the arrival of a 38 page comic ...

Cool new snoop tool for HR people

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Dutch Valleywag reader Dirk Dijksma has come up with a clever twist on the old metasearch engine: He's collected all the sites that HR people use to suss out job applicants, and put them into one page called CVGadget with expanding/collapsing widgets that only show the top few of each ...

Keyczar – Google’s crypto for non-cryptographers

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 ...