The world's favourite search engine is one of the handiest tools for hackers, said a security expert on Thursday.
The software tool used by Google's Gmail to stop spammers has been cracked, leading to a big increase in spam sent from Gmail accounts last month, according to security firm MessageLabs.
Google on Thursday fixed a security flaw in its Web search service that could have allowed malicious hackers to modify its pages.
A problem with Google's e-mail service, Gmail, let any user query the company's servers for information on the last message sent, two hackers announced on Wednesday.
Google and other search engines are now searching for Word, Excel and other file formats, and are increasingly stumbling on sensitive information
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Hackers are using search engines to watch what people photocopy.
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