First of all I do not advocate people stealing software, please support the creators of software by purchasing it legally. If you do download warez user beware, if the hacker was smart enough to patch the code so you can run an application un-registered then they are smart enough to put something nasty in that package as well. I don't
How would you like to get Blacklisted by Google? Check out the linked Register article. Their is more to follow I am sure but it is interesting to see that Google can dish it out but not take it. [The Register]
The linked page is getting hammered pretty hard at the moment. So If you have a hard time loading the page give it a hour or two but visit the site and check out what has been created. I can think of some awesome applications having census data embedded in Google Map searches. [www.gcensus.com]
Today, in direct competition with MSN and Yahoo!, Google, Inc. announced that users may create a personalized Google homepage for news, weather, cultural tidbits, and e-mail.
The new Santy worm uses the Google search engine to find vulnerable websites and then defaces the sites' bulletin boards. The worm, formally named Net-Worm.Perl.Santy, attacks website bulletin boards (Internet forums or message centers) running versions of the popular phpBB bulletin board application. The worm exploits a known security vulnerability in early releases of the phpBB application, defacing the contents
Three academic computer scientists have uncovered a serious security hole in the Google Desktop Search Toolbar that was released on October 14th. Dan Wallach, assistant professor of computer science at Rice University and two graduate students, Seth Fogarty and Seth Nielson, have known of the security problem for a month; however, this is the first confirmed report of a serious
Google, the search engine company, won a federal court battle against Geico, the insurance company, today that allows the search engine to sell online advertisements tied to keywords that are also trademarked company names. Geico claimed that Google should not be allowed to display advertisements for rival insurance companies when the Geico name is used as a search keyword. U.S.