Tag archive: security flaws

Google has decided to reward hackers who discover security loopholes instead of attempting to punish them. In a blog posting titled “rewarding web application security research,” the company announced that anyone who reports a security flaw in a Google-owned website will be receive a reward in the form of cold, hard cash. Earlier in the year, Google launched a similar program that offered cash rewards for discovering issues with… Read More

A study conducted at the University of Washington, “A Crawler-based Study of Spyware on the Web” (PDF) crawled more than 18 million Web pages across eight broad categories looking for spyware, once in May 2005 and again in October 2005. In May, it found that 13.4 percent of the 21,200 executable files it found bore spyware, and 3.4 percent of the domains it accessed contained “drive-by download” attacks which… Read More