Assessing The Security Threat Of Google&#39;s Desktop Search
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There is some confusion about threats posed by the new search tool. Google says common sense is enough of a patch. By Thomas Claburn.
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Google Desktop Search is an amazing little tool. It allows you to search your computer more quickly, completely and intuitively than Windows&#39; search feature.
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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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A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool recently distributed by Google, a newspaper report said Monday.
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People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new security risk to worry about: Google&#39;s free new tool that indexes a PC&#39;s contents for quickly finding data.
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Last week when Google came up with its Desktop Search, it promised to make finding files on our desktop a lot less painful. Knowing Google and its other services, I had little doubt that the new tool from their stable would be incredible.
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New PC indexing tools such as Google Desktop Search pose security risks to businesses that useÂ SSL remote access because the tools copy material accessed during SSL sessions and make it available to unauthorized people who later use the same PC.
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InfoWorld - Much as the ubiquity of Microsoft&#39;s Windows operating system and Office productivity tools has made the software giant a focal point of security research, search giant Google is facing new scrutiny as it diversifies its products and moves further into the business environment.
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NEW YORK -- It was supposed to be a tool to help people find stuff on their hard drives. But experts are warning that Google&#39;s new search engine for computers may leave a person&#39;s personal information at risk if they use shared computers.
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InfoWorld - Security researchers have discovered a serious flaw in Google&#39;s desktop software that could be used to wreak havoc on a victim&#39;s computer.
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Blog: Random search strings in Google can yield sites hosting drive-by downloads of malicious content.
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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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SEATTLE - The latest search engine from Google could turn out to be a privacy nightmare! Once installed in a computer running Windows XP or Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 3 or higher), the Google Desktop
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The first exploitations of Google&#39;s (Nasdaq: GOOG) peculiar search algorithms were humorous, political, or both. I&#39;m referring the once-popular procedure of Google Bombing, a way
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Google was first to market a desktop search utility. Well, actually, others were first, but Google&#39;s the one everyone noticed.
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Google&#39;s Desktop Search application, released as a preview this month for Windows XP and 2000 PCs, searches the hard drive of your PC using the same algorithms that have made its Internet search engine fast, accurate and popular.
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Google acted quickly to block Santy.A, a worm that targeted the company&#39;s popular Internet search engine. Antivirus experts say this threat has passed, but predict that it may be just