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Google hacking expected to boom in 2005
News Security experts are predicting a massive increase this year in so-called "Google hacking", where malicious Internet users or worms use the search engine to discover resources that are not intended for public consumption.
[January 14, 2005, 8:25]
Google hacking tool looks for security gaps
News Known as Google hacking, such searches can turn up easily exploitable flaws and sensitive information, including credit card numbers and user account information. Johnny Long, a senior engineer at Computer Sciences Corp.and author of the book...
[January 11, 2005, 7:35]
Gmail cookie vulnerability exposes user's privacy
News Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming emails from Google Gmail users. This can be used to forward all your incoming email," Pure Hacking security researcher Chris...
[September 27, 2007, 8:12]
Google plugs Gmail security hole
News Under the scenario, an attacker could siphon emails from the hacked account to a separate POP account, Chris Gatford, from penetration-testing company Pure Hacking, explained on Wednesday. Pure Hacking's Gatford said cross-site scripting...
[September 28, 2007, 12:23]
Google toolbar exposes PCs to attack
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. An Israeli security firm has discovered a security vulnerability in Google's Internet...
[August 9, 2002, 11:26]
News Schmooze: The end of the merger marathon
News This doesn't have a lot to do with social hacking, but Stuart King, who is apparently a Victorian police inspector, although living in the 21st century, managed to make repeated internal fraud memorable with his striking description: "If someone...
[March 22, 2002, 13:06]
Google goes down
News It was not a hacking or a security issue," Krane. Google's Web site was inaccessible for a brief time Saturday and some visitors reported being rerouted to another site, leading some to believe that the search giant had been hacked.
[May 9, 2005, 9:45]
Google explains privacy policy on YouTube
News However, a Google spokesperson said: "By being able to look at data trends over time, Google is better able to identify hacking attempts against Google systems and those of our users. Google has posted a video on YouTube that explains aspects of...
[August 9, 2007, 15:10]
Google search exposes anti-Bush subscribers
News The information leak is the latest version of "Google hacking," using the search engine's advanced features to find data leaked by Web sites. A Web page misconfiguration left dozens of the liberal political group's subscriber pages easily...
[August 23, 2004, 11:50]
Google keeps up porn probe battle
News Another reason for objecting to the subpoena, Google says in its brief authored by Al Gidari and Lisa Delehunt at the law firm of Perkins Coie, is that government lawyers might share the information with the FBI for criminal prosecution - say, of...
[February 20, 2006, 8:05]
Fraudsters search Google for credit-card numbers
News The query, the latest example of "Google hacking," highlights increasing concern that knowledgeable Web surfers can turn up sensitive information by mining the world's best-known search engine. Simple queries using the Google search engine can turn...
[August 4, 2004, 8:45]
Political site leaves backdoor open
News The MoveOn information leak was the latest incident of "Google hacking," the practice of using the search engine's advanced features to find private data leaked by Web sites. While a Google query would not have found the site, a person who knew the...
[August 25, 2004, 10:05]
Facebook denies mass hijack was down to flaw
News A spokesperson for the social-networking site said in a statement on Tuesday that no hacking was involved in the hijack. Michael Sixtus posted a message on his group's board describing the privacy campaigners as "ethical hacking net nannies".
[November 11, 2009, 15:39]
'Confidential US security documents' flaunted online
News Google hacking -- accessing confidential data from publicly available links on the search engine -- is set to become a big problem this year, experts have predicted. The information appears to have reached the public domain via Google, illustrating...
[January 24, 2005, 15:45]
US prosecutor: Cybercrime will follow the cloud
News Looking ahead five years, "I'm thinking the attack is going to be on cloud-computing centres", said Parrella, chief of the computer hacking and intellectual property unit at the US Attorney's Office. That model of importation of software is...
[July 13, 2009, 8:36]
Latest MyDoom attacks Yahoo people search
News An entry posted on Tuesday evening, just after the latest variant was discovered, tries to persuade spammers and other members of the hacking underground to contact the FBI. Last week, a MyDoom variant pumped so many queries into Google that the...
[August 4, 2004, 13:50]
Netsky attacks: Four sites down, one to go
News Netsky.Q, which first appeared on 29 March, is designed to attack certain Web sites that distribute either file-sharing clients or hacking and cracking tools. Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, said that even though the...
[April 8, 2004, 14:35]
Bugzilla 2.18 includes Windows support
News Bugzilla on NT requires hacking source code and implementing some advanced utilities. Other features in Bugzilla include improved chart generating functionality and the ability to search for bugs using a Google-like bug search facility.
[January 17, 2005, 16:55]
Oyster cracked in public, researcher claims
News Recent problems with the Oyster system are completely unrelated to this and have nothing to do with hacking". The researcher, known as 'Bla', is developing the open-source software on the Google Code platform.
[October 27, 2008, 16:15]
Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
News The charges of hacking, or "intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorisation", carry potential penalties of up to two years' imprisonment and a $200,000 (£100,000) fine. Akamai provides caching services for websites belonging to...
[October 25, 2006, 16:40]
