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Finding and exploiting holes in software features

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation.  Guest Editorial by Nate McFeters With the holiday season fast approaching, and being so in the spirit of giving,  I thought I'd compile a list of the top features that led to security...

Tags: Software, Google Inc., Attacker, XSS, Trillian, Google Picasa, URI, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-23

Unlisted Picasa Web albums are being listed

Unlisted Picasa Web albums are being listedGoogle Only.The robots.txt only allow Google's bots to crawl the pages.Re: Google OnlyI think what you are seeing is the /$ -- I'm not 100% sure what tha means since it's not in any documentation anywhere, but I am thinking it means to index...

Tags: Google Only, Picasa Web Albums, Picasa Web, Google Picasa, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-06-19

Unlisted Picasa Web albums are being listed

The newest service from Google called Picasa Web Albums lets you upload photos as "public" or "unlisted" to a website viewable from anywhere. Until now, unlisted albums were just that -- but Philipp Lenssen discovered some by doing a simple search on Google.Even though the robots.txt file for Picasa...

Tags: Google Picasa, Picasa Web, Picasa Web Album

Blog posts 2006-06-18

Picasa Web Albums

Google's new Picasa Web Albums beta [see news story] now allows you to post pictures directly from the application to a Google-hosted Web album. It's about time. Picasa has become the PC-based photo manager for many people, and many of them had become frustrated that they needed a separate non-Google...

Tags: Google Picasa, Picasa Web, Picasa Web Album, photograph

Product reviews 2006-06-15

Google puts photos on the Web

Google puts photos on the WebGoogle puts photos on the WebLet me guess, this is more innovation from Google? Even tho people have been doing this since the dawn of the www and personal home pages.No wonder Google products are so inferior......they ain't got a clue!Ferchrissake you'd think Google...

Tags: Channel management, SEARCH, photograph, online photo album, Web, Google Inc., Google Picasa

Discussion threads 2006-06-14

Google's answer to Flickr?

Spotted by one of the great Google bloggers, Philipp Lenssen, a link on the top of the Picasa site suggests a new feature is imminent -- Picasa Web Albums.This link points picasaweb.google.com, but as of yet there is still no trace of that site existing. I can only assume...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Picasa

Blog posts 2006-06-06

Google: Linux Picasa uses Wine but Earth will be native

Google: Linux Picasa uses Wine but Earth will be nativeNiceNicely done Ed!Picasa is great.It's adding more weight to the scale in favor of swaying users to consider the switch to Linux!Most users won't care that it runs on top of Wine and it is most significant that CodeWeaver and Google...

Tags: wine, Linux Picasa, Google Inc., Linux, Google Picasa

Discussion threads 2006-06-03

Google: Linux Picasa uses Wine but Earth will be native

Google has ported its popular image organizer to Linux using a Windows compatibility layer called Wine. While Google Toolbar for Firefox runs on Red Hat 8.0+, Picasa is Google’s first major, standalone...

Tags: Google Inc., Wine, Google Picasa, Linux

Blog posts 2006-06-02

Picasa for Linux

Google just added a new link on their Google Labs page that says "Picasa for Linux". Right now, it simply gives us a 404 page when clicking the link, but this is still very good news for Linux users.Picasa is a pretty good photo organizer that has some built-in...

Tags: Google Picasa, Linux

Blog posts 2006-05-26

Picasa 2.2 released

Google has just released Picasa 2.2 -- the newest version of their software that lets you organise your photos. As for what's new, that's a bit hard to say because their "latest updates" page seems to be offline. From what I can tell though, everything appears to be...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Picasa

Blog posts 2006-01-27

Additional Resources

GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default

Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?

AOL is shutting down XDrive, AOL Pictures and other properties in a belt tightening move that may indicate the company is setting itself up to be sold. The larger question: Who will buy AOL from Time Warner? According to a memo posted by TechCrunch, AOL executive vice...

Tags: America Online Inc., Portals, Business Structures, Litigation, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...

Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Gallery: Google's Knol takes on Wikipedia

Google has unveiled its own "unit of knowledge" with a competitor to Wikipedia called Knol. Google's online encyclopedia promises to lend some credence by identifying the authors. by Andy Smith

Tags: Google Inc., Google Knol, Wikipedia, Online Communications, Andy Smith, Google, Knol, wiki, encyclopedia

Image galleries 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android ChallengeI think that Google also needs to make their own self branded phone.They can not depend on existing manufacturers to do it for them. But, after the Google phone takes off, Google might decide to get out of the market.It will be many years before...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Google Digg = ?

Google Digg = ?My suggestionGoogligg!! Isn't it obvious?Well, you can stick "Micro" on the front of about anything, but, Googlejust does not work so well. Just like YouTube, Google will leave the Digg name intact and keep it separate, and only look for innovative ways to incorporate advertising."Gigglywankers"Digg...

Tags: Digg, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...

Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-24