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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,...
 
Tags: culture, googles culture, strong culture, irreverent culture intact, inspirational speech, speech, inspire, consistently inspire, eric
 
 
 
 
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Another Google Bug Put Users At Phishing Risk Due To Domain Flaw And Frame Injection Possibility

2008-10-10 23:05:05 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
...Googles Gmail service suffers from security flaws that make it trivial for attackers to create authentic-looking spoof pages that steal users login credentials. Google Calendar and other sensitive Google services are susceptible to similar tampering. A proof-of-concept (PoC) attack, published by Adrian Pastor of the GNUCitizen ethical hacking...
 
Tags: sensitive google services, users login credentials, spoof pages, adrian pastor, security flaws, google calendar, security expert, attack, collective
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: ads, googles ads, peoples ads, peoples machines, googles text ads, extra form fields, basic purpose, bad guys, future monetization
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: information, addresses, identifiable information, people, content, googles business model, party, log analysis software, actual protection
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: yahoo, google, yahoo sites, power, acquire yahoo outright, potential market power, market, google employee, googles dominance
 
 
 
 
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Automation Gone Wrong

The Article has images
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...
 
Tags: stock, trigger stock trades, automation, story, executes stock trades, web traffic, wall street journal, googles news service, virtual machine movement
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: google, html http1, http1, html, google likes viagra, referrer spam, spam, google spam, con google
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: orkut, worm, post, community, orkut community, post scrapbook, xss worm, post requests, worm code
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: privacy, google, privacy concerns, policy, google chat, financial data, data, google desktop, users privacy
 
 
 
 
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Googles GMail security failure screws a Blogger/Designer!

2007-12-25 17:50:06 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Shocking revelation by a well known designer..a must read...if you are using gmail...you may not be secure
 
Tags: gmail, designer, secure, revelation