GOOGLE NEWS
The US Department of Justice this week said it seized nearly $896,000 a...
Submitted Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 02:38 AMh-online.com — Google has announced updates to the Stable and Beta channels of their Chrome browser, fixing several bugs and twelve security vulnerabilities. Seven of the twelve security fixes were classed as high-risk problems and Google paid a total of $6000 to the researchers who discovered the bugs. See the complete story here.
Google+ revamped with Facebook and Twitter-like features
Submitted Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 02:18 AMbbc.co.uk — Google has unveiled a revamp of its social network, Google+, borrowing heavily from rival networks Twitter and Facebook. The search-engine giant has introduced trending topics and cover pictures, as well as a more "dynamic" navigation menu. See the complete story here.
Flawed sign-in services from Google and Facebook imperil user accounts
Submitted Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 06:14 AMarstechnica.com — Account login services that implement applications from Google, Facebook, and other commercial providers are prone to flaws that allow adversaries unauthorized access to private user profiles on the third-party Websites that use them, a team of computer scientists has concluded. See the complete story here.
How Linus Torvalds Helped Bust a Microsoft Patent
Submitted Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 06:04 AMwired.com — Linus Torvalds just can’t help but be a thorn in Microsoft’s side. First, he created an open source project that completely upset Microsoft’s business model. And now, he has helped shoot down an important Microsoft patent in Redmond’s crusade to wring licensing dollars out of Google Android and other versions of Linux. See the complete story here.
Google ordered to change autocomplete function in Japan
Submitted Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 06:01 AMbbc.co.uk — Google has been ordered to disable part of its autocomplete function in Japan after complaints it violates privacy. See the complete story here.
Fake Google Play site serves Android malware
Submitted Tuesday, March 20, 2012 @ 12:45 PMnet-security.org — Online scammers are known for their adaptability, so it should not come as a surprise that the recent name change of Google's official Android Market - now dubbed Google Play - would be quickly taken advantage of. See the complete story here.
Daylight saving time awakens cyberslacking zombies
Submitted Thursday, March 08, 2012 @ 12:10 PMnetworkworld.com — Can the upcoming time change turn productive, only-on-the-web-for-work employees into zombie cyberslackers bent on destroying efficiency? Researchers in a report garnered from pouring over Google searches from the last six years say data show the shift to daylight saving time and its accompanying loss of sleep cause employees to spend more time than normal surfing the Web for content unrelated to their work, resulting in potentially massive productivity losses on the day after the event. See the complete story here.
Chrome Finally Breached in Google’s $1 Million Hackathon
Submitted Thursday, March 08, 2012 @ 11:46 AMgizmodo.com — Google recently offered up prizes totaling $1 million for those capable of exploiting its browser Chrome. Now, at Google's own competition called Pwnium, a student has walked away with one of the top prizes, earning $60,000 by hacking a PC running Chrome. See the complete story here.
Google patches 14 Chrome bugs, pays record $47K in bounties and bonuses...
Submitted Monday, March 05, 2012 @ 04:00 PMcomputerworld.com — Google yesterday patched 14 vulnerabilities in Chrome and handed out a record $47,500 in rewards to researchers, including $30,000 for "sustained, extraordinary" contributions to its bug-reporting program. See the complete story here.
Google's New "Privacy" Policy is Really a "Spy Policy," Consumer Watchd...
Submitted Friday, March 02, 2012 @ 11:57 AMprnewswire.com — As Google today killed 60 separate "privacy" policies for its services and said it would now combine data between services despite widespread objection, Consumer Watchdog said the new unified policy isn't a privacy policy; it is a "spy policy.". See the complete story here.
Users Expect Websites to Load in the Blink of an Eye
Submitted Friday, March 02, 2012 @ 11:42 AMwebmonkey.com — Think your three-second page loads are “just fine”? Think again. According to engineers at Google, even the blink of an eye — which takes around 400 milliseconds — is too long. See the complete story here.
Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident
Submitted Friday, March 02, 2012 @ 11:38 AMtorrentfreak.com — A “human error” carried out by the police resulted in thousands of websites being completely blocked at the DNS level yesterday. Danish visitors to around 8,000 sites including Google and Facebook were informed that the sites were being blocked by the country’s High Tech Crime Unit due to them offering child pornography, a situation which persisted for several hours. See the complete story here.
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End
Submitted Wednesday, February 22, 2012 @ 09:16 AMbits.blogs.nytimes.com — People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time. See the complete story here.
Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux
Submitted Wednesday, February 22, 2012 @ 09:14 AMblogs.adobe.com — As discussed in the just released Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes, Adobe has been working closely with Google to develop a single modern API for hosting plugins within the browser (one which could replace the current Netscape plugin API being used by the Flash Player). The PPAPI, code-named “Pepper” aims to provide a layer between the plugin and browser that abstracts away differences between browser and operating system implementations. See the complete story here.
Google tricks Internet Explorer into accepting tracking cookies, Micros...
Submitted Wednesday, February 22, 2012 @ 08:54 AMarstechnica.com — Google was caught last week bypassing default privacy settings in the Safari browser in order to serve up tracking cookies. The company claimed the situation was an accident and limited only to the Safari Web browser, but today Microsoft claimed Google is doing much the same thing with Internet Explorer. See the complete story here.
Google cookies 'bypassed Safari privacy protection'
Submitted Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 03:46 PMbbc.co.uk — Google has been accused of bypassing the privacy settings of users of the Safari web-browser. See the complete story here.
Google Wallet suspends prepaid payment cards to prevent "painfully easy...
Submitted Tuesday, February 14, 2012 @ 12:56 AMarstechnica.com — Google Wallet will temporarily stop provisioning prepaid credit cards to prevent the exploitation of a recently discovered vulnerability which allows crooks to siphon funds out of devices that are lost or stolen. See the complete story here.
Web economy in G20 set to double by 2016, Google says
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:26 AMbbc.co.uk — The value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group. See the complete story here.
Facebook to Google: 'Don't be evil'
Submitted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 07:13 AMmoney.cnn.com — Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have a message for Google: "Don't be evil." A group of developers from those companies banded together to call Google's bluff on claims about its controversial new Search Plus Your World tool. The recently launched tool prominently spotlights Google's fledgling Google+ social network in Google.com's search results -- while leaving rival social networks in the dark. See the complete story here.
Famed Hacking Contest Gets Facelift
Submitted Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 09:16 PMdarkreading.com — ‘Pwn2Own’ will up the ante with more prolonged contest, fewer targets, more payout for first-, second-, third-place winners -- plus an extra Google bounty for cracking Chrome See the complete story here.