Gmail Now Defaults To Using HTTPS

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Last night Google started rolling out the change that enables the "Always use https" feature of Gmail by default.  This is a great change to finally see because any little bit helps. Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.html

Mozilla exec urges Firefox users ditch Google for Bing

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft's search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt."I think judgment matters," said Schmidt. "If you have something ...

Google launches privacy Dashboard service

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Google has launched a Dashboard service that's designed to show how much the search engine giant knows about its users online activities.The service provides a summary of data associated with a specified Google account. Users gain the ability to view and manage data, which ranges from search engine queries and ...

Google Groups Used To Direct Trojan Malware

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Google's free online newsgroup Google Groups hosts plenty of harmless user-generated content. But like any service that allows users to post information, it also turns out to be useful for "misuser-generated content."A Symantec security researcher has found that Trojan malware is using Google Groups to fetch commands for directing its ...

‘Google-like’ Tool Aids Network Security

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Network administrators and security specialists have long had tools and software for analyzing the streams of traffic that course through company systems, but now a Marlborough, Massachusetts, startup wants to make the process a lot easier. Dejavu Technologies recently released TrafficScape, an appliance that grabs network packets and converts them into ...