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Googles Culture of Yes

2008-06-23 15:21:46 by David Link in ScienceLogic
 
...Googles Culture of Yes After hearing his speech, I thought about how Eric and Google are impacting the digital revolution after so many others have tried unsuccessfully over the last 25 years. He has led the company through a period of explosive growth from $1 Billion to over $16 Billion in the past year, while keeping the young, fun,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Address Spoofing Flaw Allows Googles Chrome Websites Impersonation

2008-10-26 22:04:47 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
A new vulnerability has been found in Googles Chrome browser that allows attackers to impersonate websites of groups like the Better Business Bureau, PayPal and even Google. Researcher Liu Die Yu of the TopsecTianRongXin research lab in Beijing says the spoofing vulnerability is the result of faulty code inserted by programmers from the Mountain...
 
 
 
 
 
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Google Text Ad Subversion

2007-12-20 16:02:12 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...Googles text ads are getting subverted by trojans on peoples machines to get them to click on other peoples ads. It wasnt clear what those ads were, exactly, but there you have it. I see this kind of thing as a clear path for future monetization - similar to how bad guys are adding extra form fields into forms via malware to gain more...
 
 
 
 
 
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IP Addresses Are Considered Personally Identifiable Information in the EU

2008-01-22 15:39:31 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...Googles Urchin could be hard hit here Embedded content: There are tons of bulletin boards, message boards, blogs, etc out there that allow images to be posted off host. People like it because it doesnt force them to have to build upload scripts, and maintain them. Sorry, no more embedded content, and that includes things like Youtube because...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Feds Fight Google/Yahoo Alliance

2008-09-09 20:17:03 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Googles going to take over the world, and everyones going to love it, or something to that effect. Now, with Yahoo and the big Goog looking to team up, the Department of Justice is planning some moves of its own to make sure that the ad market isnt totally dominated by the two search engine giants but is it really the Feds behind the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Automation Gone Wrong

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2008-09-10 21:00:04 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...Googles news service and somehow made it to the list of most popular stories. In one of a series of mistakes here, the story had no date on it which means Googles algorithm for assessing popularity didnt have a way to exclude it as an old story OR (because there are conflicting accounts) the South Florida Sun-Sentinel actually put todays date...
 
 
 
 
 
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Links List 11.17.08

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2008-11-17 22:35:52 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...Googles win? Apparently Google CEO Eric Schmidt and President-Elect Obama are very good buddies and this terrifies Microsoft. Now competitors are more on guard against Googles growing empire and popularity. Although Schmidt was mentioned as a possible candidate for the countrys new national CTO position, he said he would not accept the post...
 
 
 
 
 
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Google Spamming Us

2007-12-20 22:11:11 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...Googles traffic since its a slow day. If nothing else its good for a laugh. First lets look at Google trying to hack us - XSS style 66.249.73.40 - - [26/Nov/2007:01:53:58 +0000] GET /blog/?%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(1)%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1 200 55053 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html Not too bad for a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Orkut XSS Worm

2007-12-20 16:18:37 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...Googles version of social networking. It was big for a while, but I think everyone bailed in favor of the more open MySpace and Facebooks of the world. Its still widely used by the Portuguese population though Rough estimates are north of 300,000 people compromised, even though it was caught relatively quickly. Its amazing how fast these...
 
 
 
 
 
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Google Changes Privacy Policy

2007-03-15 08:31:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...Googles corporate blog. They announced a new log retention policy that would anonymize the data after an 18 to 24 months period unless they are legally required to retain them. They also said they would look at improving users privacy across the board, including services like Google Chat and Google Desktop This announcement was a change in...