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It was only a few weeks ago that I wrote about the buzz over Google’s security endeavors. But with Google announcing its acquisition of security vendor Postini, another column about the search giant is in order because the blogosphere is totally fixated on the subject.Since so many people have become so utterly dependent on Google’s [...]  read more »

Search engine giant Google says it will use its acquisition of security and compliance vendor Postini to expand its hosted applications for businesses.

Forget the desktop; the browser is quickly becoming the next battleground in the fight against malware. Google’s acquisition this week of Postini got more attention, but its May purchase of browser virtualization vendor GreenBorder Technologies may prove to be just as important in the long run. With more applications–and malware–running directly on the Web now, [...]  read more »

One of the few speed bumps in the road to Google’s domination of the world has been concerns around its privacy policies. The company has been dinged by critics for a litany of perceived offenses, including selling ads against keywords found in Gmail messages, and most notably, the amount of time that it stores user [...]  read more »

As you most likely know by this point, Google has recently built an in-house anti-malware team and brought the team out into the light of day via a new blog. When I read Ryan Naraine’s post about the Google security team, my first reaction was, What does Google know from security? A lot, as it [...]  read more »

For the last year and a half, I’ve been writing a weekly column called Security Blog Log, about what IT security pros are discussing in the blogosphere. Starting this week, the column will be posted in this blog. Since this is a column about blogs and we now have our own, we thought the move [...]  read more »