Google will begin letting users run encrypted searches on its flagship search site Google.com starting next week, the company said in a blog post Thursday. Allowing users to search using https - the web security system which many associate with online banking and shopping — would mark a first for a ...

An "extremely severe" security vulnerability in the Opera browser could put web surfers at risk of remote code execution attack

Privacy advocate Moxie Marlinspike used the spotlight of the SOURCE conference here to call attention to Google's data harvesting practices, warning that the search engine giant can mine information to figure out even what Web surfers are thinking about.

Search engines and ISPs have for years refused to tell the public how many times the cops and feds have forced them to turn over information on users. Google broke that unwritten code of silence Tuesday, unveiling a Government Requests Tool that shows the public how often individual governments around the ...

The hackers who breached Google’s network last year were able to nab the source code for the company’s global password system, according to the New York Times. The Single Sign-On password system, which Google referred to internally as Gaia, allows users to log into a constellation of services the company offers ...

The New York Times is reporting that Google's password system was compromised during a targeted attack last December.

In a sudden about-face, Sun has rushed out a Java update to fix a drive-by download vulnerability that exposed Windows users to in-the-wild malware attacks.

Yahoo and federal prosecutors in Colorado are embroiled in a privacy battle testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’ e-mail. The  legal dust up, unsealed late Tuesday, concerns a 1986 law that already allows the government to obtain a suspect’s e-mail from an ISP or webmail provider without a ...

A coalition of the net’s biggest online service providers including Google and Microsoft are joining with the top internet rights groups to demand Congress modernize the nation’s privacy laws. Among the reforms pushed by the so-called Digital Due Process coalition is a requirement that law enforcement get warrants from a judge ...

Google has added a nifty new security feature to warn GMail users when there are suspicious log-ins to their e-mail accounts.