As the scope of security threats on the Internet have increased, security professionals at Google have an increased responsibility to adjusting to this new state of security on the Internet.  Google is constantly working to gain the upper-hand to threats online and to understand how these threats affect their customers and the Internet community. Google has helped to define the way people do business online.  But in this ever-changing environment that does not mean that Google is immune to the complexities that an online world can bring.

One way Google is doing this is by monitoring how its users are using Google Apps.  Google Apps are Google’s online applications and include word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. The applications host all of the users’ data online and enable users to share documents with virtually anyone, inside or outside their organizations. But because the applications exist online, they are subject to any number of known and unknown application-level attacks and Web threats, making security a thornier problem than usual.

Google doesn’t want to be the company that tells people what to do and what not to do.  Their business is built on quality of results.  Google encourages IT security professionals to look at the ways in which they secure their own companies and see how they can introduce a more open experience while still emphasizing security.  Read more about this at: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1315867,00.html

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Internet attackers looking for ways to compromise a growing number of computers have brought back SQL Injection.  Researchers are noticing a growing number of websites that have been compromised by a mass SQL Injection that take advantage of weak website apps and then use those sites as a launch pad to infect their website visitors with malware.  The concern is that there are a number of sites on the web that are vulnerable to an attack of this nature.  The attackers can access easily and quickly find new targets to attack.

The Asprox Trojan is an example of this SQL Injection.  Researchers have observed it being distributed by a spam botnet.  This trojan is related to a password-stealing trojan known as Danmec. The infected PC will download a binary that searches Google for websites that contain specific search terms and launch a SQL Injection attack on those sites.

Read more here: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1314697,00.html

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The Abobe Flash Player has a zero day defect that is currently being targeted by attackers across the world who have set up over 200,000 webpages for exploitation of the defect.  The vulnerability could be exploited to cause a denial of service ( DOS ) situation.  It is reported that Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and 9.0.124.0 are at risk.  The defect occurs when the flash player tries to process a harmful swf file.  Symantec and McAfee are reporting that different exploits are crafted to exploit the different versions of Adobe Flash and that the exploits exist for both IE and Firefox.  Users should visit www.adobe.com to download the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to protect themselves from this attack.

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