Google in Colorado safe cracking caper
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The $12,000 web search It's true. Google can help with anything. Minutes before they operned several locked safes at a "family fun center" in Colorado Springs, a team of masked bandits sat down at a nearby PC and Googled "safe-cracking." "They brought up a site called 'How to Open Safes,'" Colorado Springs detective Chuck Ackerman told The Register.â¦
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Google rules all in the online world, and businesses live or die on its search rankings determined by a secret algorithm. Everyone is trying to crack the code, and some people might pay $10 million or more to anyone who does.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has inadvertently given online attackers a new tool. The company'sÂ new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information, and even proprietary code that shouldn't have been posted to the Internet in the first place, security experts said Friday. UnlikeÂ Google's main Web search engine,Â Google Code Search peeks into the actual lines of code whenever it finds source-code files on the Internet. This will make it easier for developers to search source code directly and dig up open-source tools they may not have known about, but it has a drawback. "The downside is that you could also use that kind of search to look for things that are vulnerable and then guess who might have used that code snippet and then just fire away at it," said Mike Armistead, vice president of products with source-code analysis provider Fortify Software Inc. Attackers could also search code for vulnerabilities in password mechanisms, or to search for phrases within software such as "this file contains proprietary," possibly unearthing source code that should never have been posted to the Internet. Security experts say that the security implications of Google Code Search are noteworthy, if not earth-shattering. Skilled hackers may already be able to do this type of search with Google's Web search engine, but Code Search is "another tool that makes it a tad easier for the attacker," said Johnny Long, a security researcher with Computer Sciences Corp, in an e-mail interview. For its part, Google did not have much to say about possible misuse of its new product. "Google recommends developers use generally accepted good coding practices including understanding the implications of the code they implement and testing appropriately," the company said in a statement. Google has never said much about the steps it takes to cut down on this kind of misuse of its search engine, though the issue comes up from time to time.Â In July, Websense Inc. used a little know binary search capability within Google Inc.'s search engine to look for malware on the Internet. While Google Code Search will probably not have much of an effect on popular open-source projects, which are already heavily scrutinized, it could help ferret out vulnerabilities in lesser known pieces of code, according to Lev Toger, a software developer with Beyond Security Ltd. "Using Google's code search, it's much easier to find interesting code portions," he said via e-mail. "If your task is to find vulnerability in some random code, this filtering can save you a lot of time. " Â
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Worried that Google and other search sites know too much about you --- and that the feds can subpoena that data? Fear not -- we've got seven steps you can follow to keep your search history to yourself.
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Integrated attack Google has fixed a security flaw in its desktop search software that created a means for hackers to rifle through personal files on users' PCs.â¦
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Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world&#39;s most popular Internet search firm of breaking its own &quot;Don&#39;t be Evil&quot; code.
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The FBI has a request for all Internet surfers and potential crime solvers: Please go to http://www.bankbandits.org .
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SAN FRANCISCO A university computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by Google.
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Search Engine Strategies Local in Denver I like to shake people up these days by saying that &#8220;most of what&#8217;s actually going on online is about local.&#8221; People often greet that remark as though I&#8217;m under the influence of some mind-altering substance. But it&#8217;s true: Jobs, Cars, Real Estate, travel-related research, events and entertainment, offline buying [...]
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Internet search giant Google&#39;s aficionados may just have lost some vital information that could hurt their wallet! Hackers exploiting a flaw in Google&#39;s desktop search tool launched a week back could have
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The software works its way into a computer, hijacking the Web browser and causing the CD-ROM tray to slide open mysteriously. WASHINGTON: The US government has sued a New Hampshire man in its first attempt
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho  - Jason Larsen types in a few  lines of computer code to hack into the controls of a nearby  chemical plant. Then he finds an online video camera inside and  confirms that he has pumped up a pressure value.
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Google has said that the software flaw found in its Desktop Search utility has been fixed. The flaw allowed hackers to view information contained on a PC running the search software.
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Search engine leader Google has been forced to respond to a security vulnerability in its Google Desktop Search software, which reportedly made it possible for computer intruders to view desktop search results via the Web.
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InfoWorld - Just one day after a security researcher showed how Google&#39;s&#160;Firefox toolbar could be exploited&#160;in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in the Google Desktop.
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You won't find Google's name anywhere, but the Web search engine's new help-wanted ad reads: [First 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e].com. Here's what it would take to get to an application:
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People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data.