Google’s Chrome web browser has topped the ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of most vulnerable apps released by security firm Bit9.
The list is based on the data available with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s public National Vulnerability Database. According to the stats, Google’s Chrome web browser reported a total of 76 vulnerabilities this year between January and October. Bit9 found that Apple’s Safari web browser is the second most vulnerable product.
However, tech news site Network World reports that Marc Maiffret, a security expert with eEye Digital Security, has refuted the claims made by Bit9, saying that the measures used by the software vendor to determine the results are flawed.
In a blog post, Maiffret wrote: “To say that Google’s Chrome is the most vulnerable application is to lead IT folks to a conclusion that they should be using a browser other than Chrome and therefore leading them to the wrong conclusion.”
Originally published on ITProPortal.com
Google is to delete the Wi-Fi data, including e-mails and passwords, that it illegally collected when its Street View cars mapped the UK.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will not be investigating the matter further after Google agreed to improve its staff’s privacy training and to delete the data it had accidentally collated. The Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said that he was, “very pleased to have a firm commitment from Google,” on the matter.
Google has also managed to escape punishment over the incident, despite calls from critics for the company to be fined.
Deputy Commissioner David Smith told the BBC that: “We’d have had to find that there was substantial damage or distress to individuals from the collection of snippets of e-mails, URLs and passwords. We’d have to meet that criteria for a penalty to be imposed.”
The incident was first brought to the attention of ICO by the Hamburg data authority last year. Google later admitted to accidentally collecting the data.
ICO will audit Google’s compliance with the ruling next year.
Originally published on ITProPortal.com
The Google Apps enterprise productivity suite has been updated to include access to more than 60 consumer apps like Blogger, YouTube and Google Maps.
In a blog post, Google said that it will be offering a full spectrum of consumer apps from its web services to empower enterprise users with more productivity options.
The company said that administrators will have the ability to provide different sets of applications to different groups of users.
“For example, you could equip your marketing team with Picasa Web Albums so they can collect and share photos from customer appreciation events, and let that team publish your company’s blog with Blogger,” Google explained.
Google said that users will be able to shift to the new infrastructure supporting the consumer apps at their own pace within the next couple of months.
In addition to adding consumers apps to Google Apps, the company said that daily updates will be made to the Google Enterprise blog, providing suggestions on how to use particular Google consumer app within the enterprise.
Originally published on ITProPortal.com
Google has released an HTML 5-based online guidebook for the internet.
The book, titled “20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web”, has been created in collaboration with illustrator Christoph Niemann and aims to instruct people on the every day technologies they use to access the web.
According to Google, the book has been released to mark the 20th anniversary of the proposal for World Wide Web released by Sir Tim-Berners Lee, the founder of the web.
Google said that the book has been written by the Chrome team and strives to explain “complex but fascinating ideas about technology.” Some of the examples used to explain the internet make reference to the Chrome web browser, Google said.
Min Li Chan, Product Marketing Manager, Google Chrome, wrote: “We built ’20 Things’ in HTML5 so that we could incorporate features that hearken back to what we love about books—feeling the heft of a book’s cover, flipping a page or even reading under the covers with a flashlight.”
Originally published on ITProPortal.com
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Autore: Floriana Giambarresi
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The OpenSocial Foundation is pleased to announce the community has approved the publication of version 1.1 of the specification.
In addition to general clarifications, this release now defines the API that enable gadgets to communicate with each other via a pub/sub mechanism. In addition to the API, the specification also defines metadata that an application can include that specifies the events it is able to publish and subscribe. This enables OpenSocial providers to leverage this metadata in tools and advanced container capability.
Using this new API and metadata, developers of OpenSocial applications (gadgets), can create highly interactive mashups where components are not just assembled on the glass, but integrated with each other. This capability is especially important in enterprise settings where OpenSocial is being increasingly utilized as key Internet technology.
Congratulations to the community on another great release!
Published by Mark Weitzel, President, OpenSocial Foundation
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Starting today, Google Apps for Business, Education and Government customers have space for twice as many contacts as before in their organization’s shared contacts. IT administrators told us that they needed more capacity, so we upped the limit from 25,000 to 50,000 entries. Shared contacts are part of the organization’s global address list (GAL), and these contacts auto-complete across Google Apps to help employees work faster and more accurately. Once you start typing to address an email message, invite colleagues to a calendar event, or share a Google Docs file, you can just click a recipient’s name to complete the entry.
We’ve also made optimizations to the Shared Contacts API so administrators can upload contacts much more quickly. Enjoy!
Posted by Mike Helmick and Petr Konecny, Software Engineers
