Bug#667050: iceweasel: "Block reported attack sites/web forgeries" should mention its use of Google and allow opt-out

Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0.3esr-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was curious about the following excessive access to the url GET http://safebrowsing-cache.google.com/safebrowsing/... and realized it was coming from firefox by having the ...

Message posted on the April 3rd, 2012 - 2:00 PM ET

Google alerts users to attacks conducted by states

Google has inaugurated a new type of alert to warn their users if their account is being targeted by an attack being undertaken by a state.

News published on the June 6th, 2012 - 9:45 AM ET

WikiLeaks: China behind the Google cyber attacks

Diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks seem to confirm that the Chinese government was behind the computer attack which hit Google at the end of 2009.

News published on the November 29th, 2010 - 9:10 AM ET

IE Weakness and Cyber attack : Microsoft updates users

As the source of a cyber attack which targeted Google, Microsoft recommends updating Internet Explorer to version 8.

News published on the January 18th, 2010 - 4:58 PM ET

Antitrust : Brussels opens a surprise investigation against Google

Following complaints made by three online sites, one of which is linked to Microsoft, the European Commission is investigating Google for possible anti-competition practices. If found to be the case, legal proceedings may be initiated.

News published on the February 24th, 2010 - 11:45 AM ET

Google, for the moment, continues to censor in China

The Google search engine continues to obey Chinese law, although their position may change quickly if they decide to leave the market. Diplomacy between the USA and China seems to have just gone up a notch.

News published on the January 22nd, 2010 - 11:03 AM ET

A retrospective on the mobile field 2008 - Part two

This is the second installment of our look at the mobile phone sector in 2008, with this part looking at the second half of the year. We were slowly but surely entering into the crisis with announcements starting to come out. But at this time, not ...

Review published on the January 9th, 2009 - 11:47 AM ET

Iran to launch their own Internet

Iran is planning on extending their intranet nationally to the entire population. This is a network separated from the Internet, with the country having decided to block access to Google and Gmail.

News published on the September 24th, 2012 - 4:25 PM ET

Bug#651931: bokken: vulnerable to symlink attack, leading to arbitrary file overwrite

Package: bokken Version: 1.5-2 Severity: important Tags: security An attacker on a multi-user system can overwrite an arbitrary file owned by the user running bokken by creating a symlink named /tmp/graph.dot: pabs@chianamo ~ $ ls -l foo ...

Message posted on the December 13th, 2011 - 6:10 AM ET

Bug#535793: webkit: deluge of security vulnerabilities

package: webkit version: 1.0.1-4 severity: grave tags: security hello, webkit has recently been hit by a deluge of security issues [1],[2]. i've been trying to figure out the state of these problems and where debian is affected, but apple's ...

Message posted on the July 5th, 2009 - 1:20 AM ET

nuclear reactor runs Windows, nearly gets hacked

Supposedly a worm made it to the Windows machines of the staff at this nuclear power plant. The worm was designed to work on PLCs accessed by the Windows-based software that controls the plant. ...

Message posted on the September 27th, 2010 - 12:39 AM ET

[ 00/80] 3.4.25-stable review

Note, there are still a lot of patches submitted for inclusion in the stable releases that I have not gotten to yet. I wanted to get this release out now, instead of delaying for a week or so while I dig through all of the pending patches. This is ...

Message posted on the January 9th, 2013 - 3:40 PM ET

Study says: cola newsgroup is a practice session for lying Linux "advocates"

"Researchers found that with a little training, people can learn to tell a lie more automatically and efficiently. It gets easier for folks to repeat the lies and becomes harder for them to differentiate deception from telling the truth." ...

Message posted on the January 27th, 2013 - 12:27 PM ET

[OT] Stability and negative feeback - from the Web

Notice how this "stability analysis of feedback amplifiers" is entirely about the resistance of the circuit to oscillation. It has got nothing to do with the "stabilization of gain". ...

Message posted on the October 3rd, 2012 - 10:55 AM ET

google state attack