Google mends security flaw in Desktop Search
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A handful of researchers at Rice University uncovered a security flaw in Google&#39;s Desktop Search offering that could allow attackers to view small portions of personal search results.
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Google Inc.  on Thursday rolled out a preliminary version of its new desktop search tool, making the first move against its major competitors in the race to provide tools for finding information buried in computer hard drives.
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With Google Desktop Search, users can sift through their e-mail, files, Web history and chats to find information in the same way they search the Internet.
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Google has patched a potentially dangerous vulnerability in its Google Desktop software that security experts say could have put the sensitive information of millions of users at risk.
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Ziff Davis - Google's phishing vulnerabilities could foretell new security threats for major Internet companies cozying up to the desktop.
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Google fixed its new Desktop Search tool and publicly thanked the three computer scientists for their work. They published their findings on the Web site of the Computer Security Lab at Rice University.
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Google has announced a new desktop search application that enables users to search their e-mail, files, web history, and chats. Perhaps learning from previous mistakes, Google says it has designed the product &quot;from the ground up to respect user privacy.
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Google unveiled a desktop search agent yesterday that lets users find any information stored on their computer, including visited Web pages, files and e-mail as well as instant messages.
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Just one day after discovering Google's Firefox toolbar could be exploited in an attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in Google Desktop.
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Google's new Google Desktop Search tool raises a number of search privacy issues. In this article, we'll look at some of the usual specters of search privacy plus some new things people should consider.
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(InfoWorld) - Security researchers have discovered a serious flaw in Google's desktop software that could be used to wreak havoc on a victim's computer. The bug, which was made public Wednesday by Watchfire, has now been fixed. While Google is automatically delivering a patch, Google Desktop users who want to be sure they are running the latest version of the software can download it here. Users should be running version 5.0.701.30540 or later, said Google Spokesman Barry Schnitt. Google was first notified of the problem on Jan. 4 and produced its fix on Feb. 1, a Watchfire spokesman said Wednesday. In addition to its bug fix, Google has added, "another layer of security checks to the latest version of Google Desktop to protect users from similar vulnerabilities in the future," Schnitt said. "We have received no reports that this vulnerability was exploited," he added. Watchfire's research underscores the danger of integrating Web-based applications with the desktop, the company said in a white paper published Wednesday. The flaw lies in a search parameter used by Google Desktop's Advanced Search feature, which could be used to execute malicious JavaScript code, according to Watchfire. For this attack to work, the criminal would have to first go through a number of steps, including hacking Google.com to find a cross site scripting vulnerability on the Web site -- something that has been done several times in the past year, according to Watchfire. If successful, however, the attack would be devastating. A criminal could search for anything on the computer or even take over the victim's computer by tricking Google desktop into running malicious software stored on another computer, Watchfire claims.
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Google fixed a flaw in its Google Desktop Search(GDS)that could have given hackers access to users&#39; local searches, officials said Monday.
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It&#39;s not just the privacy issue of multiple users on a computer and the tool indexing everyone&#39;s contents anymore. According to a Rice University computer scientist, the flaw could allow an attacker to search
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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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A flaw in Google&#39;s desktop search program was revealed on Monday by a team of computer researchers. They showed it could be used to capture valuable personal information from a remote user&#39;s computer.
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Researchers at Rice University have discovered what they say is a flaw in the beta version of Google's Desktop Search product that could allow third parties to access users' search result summaries, providing a sneak peek at part of the content of personal files.
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Search engine darling Google Inc. has patched a hole in its search engine the could have allowed malicious hackers to modify the content of the Google search results page or silently modify search results, but a new hole may have already appeared.