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Security researchers unveiled eight vulnerabilities in Google services during the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Thursday -- but they claim to have discovered more than 100 such bugs over the past few months.

The bugs they revealed were found in Google's blog platform Blogger, its Analytics service and in Google Calendar, amongst other services. The two most interesting once are the bugs found in Calendar and Analytics, said Itzhak Avraham, security researcher and founder of the Tel Aviv-based security firm Zimperium.

Google sealed its $12.5bn purchase of Motorola Mobility on Tuesday, marking the company's biggest ever acquisition with a change at the top. 

Google CEO Larry Page said in a post on Google's official blog earlier that the deal was closed with Motorola Mobility CEO, Sanjay Jha, stepping down and being replaced by president of Google's Americas region, Dennis Woodside.

Today Google announced it would be leading a campaign to notify users whose PCs were infected by the DNSChanger malware. The malware was part of a scam that came to light last November when the U.S. Department of Justice accused seven Estonian and Russian men of orchestrating several different kinds of Internet fraud schemes. Users were infected with DNSChanger after they clicked malicious links or downloaded tainted software.

The malware sent infected computers to DNS servers that redirected millions of victims to websites they had never intended to visit.

Google released the newest version of its popular Chrome Web browser Tuesday, fixing 18 security glitches and adding a convenient new feature for its customers. 

Google classified seven of the vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome version 19.0.1084.46 as high-risk flaws, meaning they could be exploited to take control of infected systems. Chrome users can update to version 19 by clicking the wrench icon in the top right corner of the browser and selecting "About Google Chrome"; if your browser hasn't automatically updated itself, it will prompt you.

It was astonishingly easy to quit Googling. In Chrome, Google's Web browser, I clicked a couple buttons in the Settings tab, and voilà, my default search engine was Bing. The great thing about Chrome is that it remembers your preferences across all your computers - I only needed to switch to Bing on my desktop, and there it was on my laptop, too. (Thank you, Google!) 

Scammers have launched a campaign preying on users of OpenID in an attempt to steal log-in credentials, according to Barracuda Labs.

Barracuda security researchers Dave Michmerhuizen and Luis Chapetti say they are seeing specially built log-in pages that appear similar to pages used as part of the OpenID authentication process. When users type in their credentials, the data is collected by a rogue website, which sends back a message that the credentials have been validated.

We think of Google and Facebook as Web gorillas.  They’ll be around forever. Yet, with the rate that the tech world is moving these days, there are good reasons to think both might be gone completely in 5 – 8 years.  Not bankrupt gone, but MySpace gone.  And there’s some academic theory to back up that view, along with casual observations from recent history.

A Google engineer who wrote a computer program capable of collecting personal data from people's home wireless networks, told at least two other Google employees about it, although the company asserted it did not know, a US government report shows.

The fact was revealed in a Federal Communications Commission's investigation, but had been redacted out by the FCC when it released its report two weeks ago. Google released the report itself over the weekend, with only names and telephone numbers blacked out.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 April 2012 - This year Google has once again extended its Diversity Grant Program for female hackers to attend the third annual HITB conference in Europe, HITBSecConf2012 - Amster

Amid the excitement over Google Drive, the search giant's new Dropbox competitor, Microsoft recently improved a similar online sync and storage service, SkyDrive. Microsoft added the ability to store files online and sync across multiple devices right from your Windows or OS X desktop. That puts SkyDrive squarely in competition with Dropbox and Drive, five years after Microsoft first introduced its online storage solution in 2007.