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2007 December 22

Shockwave to the system — Flash vulnerabilities menace tens of thousands of websites

Researchers from Google have documented serious vulnerabilities in
Adobe Flash content which leave tens of thousands of websites
susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors. …
One reason for the sheer volume of vulnerable applets: SWF files generated by six of the more popular content development tools automatically contain the bugs, according to the book. [...]

Google learns to speak your language

The search engine company has developed a series of translation bots for its Google Talk application, which translate conversations in real time.
The service includes 24 translation bots, converting between languages such as English, French, German, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Google learns to speak your language

Ad hijacking Trojan targets Google

Security researchers have identified a Trojan that hijacks Google text advertisements, replacing them with “ads” from a different provider that are likely to be laced with spyware.
The Qhost-WU modifies an infected computer’s hosts file, thereby poisoning systems with bogus DNS lookup records. The hosts file matches domain names of websites with corresponding IP addresses. By [...]

IBM Offers Free E-Mail Search Tool

E-mail is a good target for developing a semantic search engine because users frequently repeat certain phrasings and words and repeatedly exchange the same type of information.
PC World - IBM Offers Free E-Mail Search Tool

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