Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Just one day after a security researcher showed how Google Inc.'s Firefox toolbar could be exploited in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in the Google Desktop.
On Thursday, Google hacker Robert Hansen posted proof of concept details showing how attackers could use Google Desktop to launch software ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Popular Firefox browser plug-ins are not doing enough to secure their software, a security researcher has said.
Many widely used Firefox extensions, including toolbars from Google, Yahoo and AOL do not use secure connections to update themselves, according to Christopher Soghoian, a security researcher who blogged about the issue.
Soghoian is best ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Hundreds of users have clicked through to a Google AdWords advertisement offering to infect users with a virus, according to a blogger.
The experiment, run by Didier Stevens, a blogger who says he works for the consultancy group Contraste Europe, is the latest, if slightly puzzling development to reinforce the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Internet search engines are now one of the commonest means by which malware spreads, a new study has suggested.
The study carried out by McAfee?s spyware expert Ben Edelman using the company?s SiteAdvisor tool, analysed common searches on all the Net?s major search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask.
The ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Want to know what's going on in someone's mind? Look at the words they enter in their favorite search engine. Fortunately, that information is private, right? Maybe not.
If you use Google, for instance, and are not blocking cookies, the search engine likely has placed a cookie on your system that ...
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