Gbrowser.com & speculation of a Google-branded Firefox Web browser

Kaleem — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:40:38 -0400

Speculation about a Google-branded Web browser has been re-ignited after talk of a Firefox-based project in the works.

Google's registration of Gbrowser.com on April 26, 2004 spawned a great deal of speculation that Google was about to enter the Web browser market and attempt to dethrone the current king, Microsoft and the Internet Explorer Web browser.

It was a logical leap. After all, Google launched its Gmail beta service with 1000 megabytes of e-mail storage on April 1 -- I, like many others initially thought it was an April Fool's joke, especially after reading the tone and language ...

SANS Institute unveils 2004 Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities list

Kaleem — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:27:52 -0400

The SANS Institute released 2004's Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities list, its fifth edition of the annual list.

It's a good, evolving guide that draws attention to the problem of Internet security which is of growing importance as we become more reliant on the Internet as a platform for our communications and commerce. (More on the relative importance of Internet security in another blog post -- when I get some time to write about that).

Notable additions to the list are e-mail client software vulnerabilities and instant messaging vulnerabilities on the Windows list. I am unsure why both of these were not added to the list before....