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Google has unveiled a new program to pay between $500 and $3,133 to people who discover security vulnerabilities in its websites and online applications. “We hope our new program will attract new researchers and the types of reports that help make our users safer,” members of Google’s security team said in a group blog post.

After more than 2 years of loyal service of my 2G iphone, was about time to get a new mobile. Of course 3Gs was the one I looked at first being an old school Apple user. First Apple product used was more than 25 years. I assumed I can call myself an advanced Apple user. […]

An error-checking algorithm found in software used to attack Google and other large companies circulated for years on English-speakinglanguage books and websites, casting doubt on claims it provided strong evidence that the malware was written by someone inside the People’s Republic of China. The smoking gun said to tie Chinese-speaking programmers to the Hydraq trojan […]

Hackers apparently were able to access a system used to help Google comply with search warrants by providing data on Google users, said a source familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. “Right before Christmas, it was, ‘Holy s***, this malware is […]

It’s funny what you discover sometimes when you’re doing the daily trawl of things and looking for something to blog. Today was one of those days. I was scanning through the Register of Members’ Interests and saw that Gisela Stuart MP had been paid for an article in the German weekly newspaper, Die Zeit.