Technology News: Security: Google Thwarts Santy.A Worm Amid Growing Threat
Richard Stiennon Webroot vice president of threat research said the increasing number of desktop search tools now coming out from Google Yahoo and others may also be leveraged by attackers Stiennon said he would not be surprised to see hackers try to secretly download search tools in attacking computer users
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Jeeves' near-death experience
When movers carried him into a downtown highrise in Oakland this month Jeeves finally settled into the home chosen for him four years ago before his neardeath experience
The Internet crash derailed the moving plans laid for Ask Jeeves the search engine company named after the butler from Wodehouses stories Management canceled the 10year lease shortly before the company was scheduled to move in The cardboard icons of Jeeves and the employees who survived the massive layoffs stayed put in nearby Emeryville As the stock tumbled below 1 many waited for the end
It never came...
Asking Search Engines Who's The Top Search Engine
Its been done before but Gord Hotckiss takes a fresh look at what comes up tops for a search for search engine at well various search engines in his Of Serendipity and Search Engines article at MediaPost
Is Google tops for that query at Google Nope its some small web site no ones every heard of called Search Engine Watch or something like that Now obviously Im
not going to disagree with that result but Gord thinks maybe Google itself might want to rise higher than fifth place certainly above the former search stars Lycos and
AltaVista that currently outrank it
Over at Yahoo the big Y puts itself first...
Posts Today
Ive tried to stick with companies that were pretty firmly in the search marketing space from a service perspective that were consumed by traditional or semitraditional agencies Some of these
we had yesterday and I came across a nice article by Fredrick Marckini listing a few more
Predictions for The s View
Fredrick of course is founder and of iProspect so he fulfills his prediction of threetosix acquisitions in by getting his own company bought and
congrats Fredrick
Some other notes Tempus bought a stake in beginning in June to form a core part of its
Outrider division...
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Microsoft Fixes 2 Firewall Flaw
Microsoft announced Friday that it has released a patch to remedy a potential security breach in its firewall utility shipped with Windows Service Pack 2 The flaw could make files visible outside of a local network if file and print sharing was activated Microsoft had acknowledged the problem on its 2 Web site back in September
Bug Makes Spoofing More Believable
Normally it is easy to spot a spoofed or fake Web site if the user knows what to look for However a new flaw discovered by Danish company Secunia may change all that...