Techmeme: SECURITY RESEARCHERS: SAFARI FOR WINDOWS NOT SO SECURE (Robert Vamosi/Webware.com)

11:30 AM ET, June 12, 2007

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Thor Larholm / Larholm.com:

Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours — Apple released version 3 of their popular Safari web browser today, with the added twist of offering both an OS X and a Windows version. Given that Apple has had a lousy track record with security on OS X, in addition to a hostile attitude …

David Maynor / Errata Security:

Niiiice... Apple just released a Safari for Windows beta at http://www.apple.com/safari. Using publicly available tools we had a DoS in no time. Keeping with our disclosure policy, we do not report bugs to Apple. — UPDATE: Whoops, sorry, thats not a DoS, its memory corruption.

Aviv Raff On .NET:

Apple Safari for Windows - Out with a crash — Apple has just released a public beta of its Safari browser for Windows. — On the download page Apple write: "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one". — So, I've decided to take it for a test drive, and ran Hamachi.

Discussion: Macsimum News and SitePoint Blogs

Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:

Safari on Windows could be big target for malware — The news that Apple's Safari browser is coming to Windows (see Techmeme discussion) has raised eyebrows in the security research community and there's already word that a memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered.

Discussion: Joel on Software, Apple, Publishing 2.0, Digital Inspiration and PC World: Techlog

Robert Vamosi / Webware.com: SECURITY RESEARCHERS: SAFARI FOR WINDOWS NOT SO SECURE

Karen / Official Google Blog:

How long should Google remember searches? — Over the years we've taken many steps to protect our users' data and privacy. For example, we have resisted overly-broad government subpoenas; we've designed our services to give users a choice between personalized services and general services …

Discussion: IP Democracy, Search Engine Journal, paidContent.org, Insider Chatter, John Battelle's Searchblog and Matt Cutts

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google Responds To EU: Cutting Raw Log Retention Time; Reconsidering Cookie Expiration — In response to an EU letter over data retention, Google has announced that it will now anonymize server log data after 18 months, rather than the previous maximum time it had announced of 24 months.

Discussion: InfoWorld and Search Engine Watch

Reuters:

YouTube to test video ID with Time Warner, Disney — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top online video service YouTube will soon test a new video identification technology with two of the world's largest media companies, Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co..

Discussion: CrunchGear, Insider Chatter, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, Search Engine Land, paidContent.org and NewTeeVee

Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube to Test Software To Ease Licensing Fights — SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.'s YouTube says it will begin testing advanced video identifying technology to spot clips on the video-sharing site with media companies including Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co. starting in a month.

Discussion: The Boy Genius Report, Google (GOOG): BloggingStocks and Lost Remote

New York Times:

YouTube Sets Tests of Video Blocking — Google says it will soon begin testing a long-awaited system that can block unauthorized copyrighted clips from being uploaded to YouTube, the popular video-sharing site it bought last year. — Company executives have predicted that the technology …

Discussion: rexduffdixon.com and Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer

Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: YouTube To Test Copyright Screening Technology

Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:

Gmail Rolls Out PowerPoint Preview — Interesting: Google rolled out their slideshow feature for Gmail (some of you were already getting this as experiment for a while). What happens is that whenever someone sends you a PowerPoint attachment, you can instantly open it in a new browser window by clicking …

Discussion: WebProNews, Search Engine Journal and Todd Watson

Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: Google Integrates Powerpoint Viewer Into Gmail

Om Malik / GigaOM:

5 ways iPhone will change the wireless biz — Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote, demo of upcoming Leopard and Safari for Windows may have generated a lot of oohs and ahhs, but it was towards the end that His Jobness revealed the game plan to irreversibly change the world of wireless.

Discussion: Download Squad

Arn / MacRumors:
No Adobe Flash Support on the iPhone

Discussion: digg

Oliverryan / The Browser:

LinkedIn says it will own business networking — In the future, everyone will likely maintain two online profiles. So said LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye in an extended lunchtime interview last week here in Fortune's conference room/pool hall. We had opened the conversation with THE question of the moment …

Discussion: Jim Kukral, Web Strategy and HipMojo.com

Steve O'Hear / The Social Web: LinkedIn vs Facebook: room for both?

Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:

Google to Release Detailed Metrics for your AdSense Campaign — Google has made a significant stride with its AdWords program, in which Google announced its Content Placement Reports. This means that AdSense users can get a far more detailed report on where their money is going for Google ad placement.

Discussion: howardowens.com

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google AdWords Adds Placement Performance Reports Showing Content …

Discussion: John Battelle's Searchblog, ClickZ, Search Engine Watch Blog, Web X.0 and AdMoolah News and Views

Miguel Helft / New York Times:

For Yahoo, an Ordeal of Dissent — When Terry S. Semel, Yahoo's chief executive, faces shareholders at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday, Eric Jackson will be there to pepper him with questions. — Mr. Jackson, who owns just a few Yahoo shares, is not happy with the company's performance …

Discussion: Between the Lines, Breakout Performance, BoomTown and The Next Net

Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:

HD DVD sales spike in wake of price cuts — Last month, the HD DVD Promotional Group announced a rebate program designed to make HD DVD players a bit more affordable. Today, the group said that one Toshiba player has made it to the top of the Amazon DVD player sales chart and that HD DVD players …

Discussion: Neowin.net

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