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Google Blocks Porn In Base, Patches Appliance
An anonymous reader writes "The search giant has moved to fix a problem in Google Base which didn't properly block pornographic material in their search results. According to Google, the filter was broken for 'some period of time' but the company didn't elaborate. Nathan Weinberg could have been one of the first to report the incident on his blog, Inside Google, writing: 'Holy crap, there is a lot of porn at Google Base! Looks like, just like Google Images, Google Base could become a huge source of porn, and eventually a place where porn will be sold. I even noticed some movie reviews.'" They've also recently corrected a problem with their search appliance. geo_2677 wrote to mention a Securityfocus.com article discussing the rapid patching of the Google search boxes in response to a vulnerability.
Because this is on the company level. GOOGLE is doing this - not the feds.
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Seems that more and more security researchers are turning their attention to Google these days. There has been a spate of recent bugs published to the usual mailing lists in past weeks.
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Title: Google Talk Denial of Service - BenjiBug
Google Talk's automatic update mechanism (which can't be turned off) checks to see if the downloaded file matches a signature, but it doesn't check the size of the file. So it can be forced to compute a hash of a 1 gig file, crashing the machine.
Killer Empty Sender Message
echo kill | nail -s Kill -r "" victim (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]
crashes Google Talk
Google Talk cleartext proxy credentials vulnerability
Google Talk stores the GMail login details securely, but not the proxy authentication credentials
Not to mention the GMail bug discussed on
Ah, the perpetual beta..