Microsoft Tuesday said it will deepen ties between its Visual Studio development tools and the secure applications development processes first developed inside the company and now available to outsiders. Microsoft will upgrade its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process with templates, new partners and supporting documentation. The company made the announcement at the Black Hat Conference [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple In The Face?
As great as Android phones are getting, there has been one major feature lacking that users have complained about: multi-touch. Yes, some third-party apps have been free to use it on certain devices, but the best Android apps, those made by Google, have all lacked it. Until now. With the Android update announced for Nexus [...]
How Google sets goals and measures success
Google sets impossible bodacious goals…and then achieves them. The engineering mindset of solving the impossible problem is part of the culture instilled in every group at Google. Tough engineering problems don’t have obvious answers. You need to invent the solution, not just optimize something that exists. Every quarter every group at Google sets goals, called [...]
Spam is solved, we can all go home now
The NewScientist has an article on an interesting new antispam technique. Here’s an excerpt: SPAMMERS’ own trickery has been used to develop an “effectively perfect” method for blocking the most common kind of spam, a team of computer scientists claims. Most of the billions of spam messages sent each day originate in networks of compromised [...]
Follow Changes to any website
Monday, January 25, 2010 by Brian Shih At Google we’re always looking for ways to take advantage of work being done in other parts of the organization. So when a team approached us with a way to follow changes from websites without feeds, we jumped at the opportunity. Post by Liza Ma, Product Manager. Feeds [...]
TOR issues updated software after server breach
The TOR Project is advising users to upgrade to a new version of the software following a hack that compromised three of its servers. TOR, short for “The Onion Router,” is a worldwide network of servers that are used to help anonymize people’s Web surfing. Web traffic is randomly routed through many servers, masking critical [...]