Tag Archives: Google

The last few years have seen a sharp rise in the power and features of smart phones such as the Blackberry, Apple iPhone, and most recently Google Android-based phones. Coupled with this rise is a new ecosystem of mobile application …

A new report by security researchers claims that Google’s reCAPTCHA system is flawed – so flawed that it would allow a botnet with just 10,000 zombies to manage 10 recognition successes an hour resulting in over 850,000 fake accounts being …

Google’s new Google Voice feature lets subscribers get a ten-digit phone number that links all your other numbers, and rings them simultaneously. It also lets you make calls for free in the US and inexpensively for international calls, which will …

In what Google officials are blaming on human error, for a while every site on the Internet was labled as malicious. For about an hour on Saturday morning, every search result had the warning “This site may hurt your computer.” Users …

A study by Roaring Penguin has discovered that during the past three weeks, the amount of spam originating from Gmail has risen sharply while spam originating from Yahoo and Hotmail remained flat or dipped slightly. Experts say this huge rise …

According to a report by the Information Security Research Team, Google’s GMail service could potentially be turned into a giant spam machine thanks to a flaw that essentially renders it an open relay server. The flaw allows anyone with the …

According to Slashdot, Google’s mail servers appear to be responsible for sending large amounts of backscatter. They don’t perform any recipient validation for the googlegroups and blogger.com domains (and presumably their other domains as well), allowing spammers to launch large-scale …