Desktop search tool from Google has flaw
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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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Google said Monday that it has fixed a security flaw in its new desktop computer search tool that could have allowed attackers to read parts of files stored on a user&#39;s computer.
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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 plugs security holes in popular desktop search software that could open up data on a PC to intruders.
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN BOSTON - A potentially devastating hole in Google Inc.'s prevalent desktop search product could have exposed personal files on users' computers to data thieves.
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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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Google&#39;s latest service, Desktop Search, promises to be one of its most interesting innovations, and also one of its more controversial ones.
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John Markoff in the New York Times reports that a computer science professor and two of his students have discovered a &quot;composition flaw&quot; in Google&#39;s desktop search application.
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Google's PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning, that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.
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Desktop search can help you sort through your computer's contents
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Search engine's free program fixes a glaring weakness in Windows: its woeful file-searching capabilities.-Rob Pegoraro
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Google on Thursday fixed a security flaw in its Web search service that could have allowed malicious hackers to modify its pages. According to a report posted to the Bugtraq Security Focus list on Wednesday
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The logic behind Google (GOOG ) Desktop Search is simple enough: Why shouldn&#39;t the best tool for finding things on the Web do equally well at helping people search their own computers?
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Web search powerhouse Google has acknowledgedâand patchedâa security vulnerability in its desktop search utility that opens the doors for man-in-the-middle data leak attacks.
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Google&#39;s new Desktop Search software is a muscle car among search engines, racing through personal data stored inside your computer to instantly find things you can&#39;t easily locate.
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HOUSTON - A computer scientist and two of his graduate students at Rice University found a security flaw in a search tool distributed by Google, allowing the popular Web site to fix the problem.
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Security researchers have discovered a serious flaw in Google Inc.'s desktop software that could be used to wreak havoc on a victim's computer.