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Jul
30
2008

Application feature - alerting user of concurrent sessions »

Earlier this month Google's Gmail added several new security features to the latest version of Gmail. A user can now see a list of current open sessions associated with the user's account. See an open session from an IP address you don't recognize or an access type you don't use...
Posted by Steve Werby in the Information Security blog.
Jul
10
2008

Only 41% of web browsers are fully patched »

According to a study published on July 1st, on any given day only 41% of web browsers are fully patched. The data came from visits to Google websites worldwide between January 2007 and June 2008. Not surprisingly, Firefox came out on top because of its single click auto-update technology which...
Posted by Steve Werby in the Information Security blog.

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