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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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
A couple of minutes ago an interesting attempt to phish for Google account credentials made it to my inbox. It had me blink my eyes because while I suspected phishing there were some things with this one that had me check twice to see how it’s done, as things looked ...
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