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Adobe last week acknowledged that as many as 80 bugs in Flash Player were reported by a Google security engineer, as it continued to defend its decision not to spell out details of the vulnerabilities.

Google also cited the same number, apparently putting to rest the spat between the engineer, Tavis Ormandy, and Adobe. In a pair of blog posts, Adobe and Google spelled out how the number "400" that Ormandy had cited ended up being cut by 80%.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.

Since its introduction in fall 2008, Android has been positioned as an open source OS that would take the best of the community and reinvent mobile computing. Well, Android certainly has emerged as a powerhouse mobile OS, accounting for the majority of smatrtphone sales for months now. But it's not open source.

The first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet, Acer's Iconia Tab A100, is finally landing in stores this weekend. Running Android "Honeycomb" 3.2, the tablet was announced all the way back in January and due out in the first half of the year, but its release was delayed several times.

The A100 is powered by a Tegra 2 dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. The 7-inch screen has a resolution of 1024x600 at a 16:9 aspect ratio, and the tablet is Flash-equipped and can play 1080p video via an external monitor.

Months after Google said that Chinese hackers were targeting the Gmail accounts of senior U.S. government officials, attempts to hijack Gmail inboxes continue, a researcher said Thursday.

"Once compromises happen and are covered in the news, they do not disappear and attackers don't give up or stop. They continue their business as usual," said Mila Parkour, an independent security researcher based in Washington, D.C., on her Contagio Malware Dump website.

Google has released Chrome 14 to the Chrome beta testing channel, which includes, among other new features, the initial beta release of Google’s "Native Client" technology, first announced in 2010.

If you’d like to try out Chrome 14 beta, head on over to the beta downloads page.

Hackers are abusing thousands of independent WordPress sites to litter Google Image search results with code that redirects users to servers that attempt to infect them with malware.

Flaws in Google Chrome extensions could enable attackers to steal account credentials, hijack browser sessions and virtually take over a victim’s computer without their knowledge, according to two researchers at WhiteHat Security Inc. They say the flaws jeopardize Chromebook security. Chromebook, the new Web-based laptop/netbook platform based on the Google Chrome OS, relies on extensions for its functionality. 

Google patched 30 vulnerabilities in Chrome today, paying out the third-highest bounty total ever for the bugs that outsiders filed with its security team.

The company packaged the patches with an update to Chrome 13, adding Instant Pages to the "stable" channel of the browser. The feature, which Google earlier tucked into Chrome 13 previews, proactively pre-loads some search results to speed up browsing.

Hacker group LulzSec ("the world's leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense") has had its initial Google+ account nixed this week, though LulzSec has quickly and brashly re-emerged with a new one.