The flaw, which Google recently patched, was giving out original documents to unauthorized users via embedded links. It’s yet another example of how storing documents “in the cloud” means “heaven knows with whom”. 
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Google lawsuit highlights why every business needs to manage its online presence
Virginia restaurant owner Rene Bertagna is suing Google, claiming that his business’ listing was sabotaged by a competitor and that the web giant turned a blind eye. 
Patch Tuesday wrap-up, July 2014 – Adobe fixes “Rosetta”, plus a new risky file type on Windows…
Patch Tuesday for July 2014 is just behind us in the case of Microsoft and Adobe, and just ahead of us in the case of Oracle. Paul Ducklin tells you what you need to know…
US arrests Russian MP’s son for PoS hacking; Russia calls it kidnapping
The Russian man’s father conjectures that, for all he knows, this may be a ploy for the US to get bait to exchange for Snowden. 
Australian police using tower dumps to slurp mass phone data
Australian federal and state police have joined the ranks of mega-data slurpers – namely, the US, where 1 in 4 law enforcement agencies have reportedly used a “tower dump” – ordering phone providers to hand over personal information about thousands of mobile phone users, regardless of whether or not those people are under investigation.
Google’s Android security chief: Don’t bother with anti-virus. Is he serious?
Google’s chief security engineer for Android, Adrian Ludwig, claims that most users shouldn’t bother with anti-virus and that security companies are overstating the problem of Android malware. Can he be serious? …
How not to tell your customers how much you care about their security
We’ve written before about “what not to do” when sending emails to your customers. Here’s another example, with an explanation of why doing the right thing will be better for everyone – including your marketing team! – in the long run.
Police dog catches paedophiles by sniffing out their hidden hard drives
Police detection dogs are the latest tool in investigators’ arsenal when it comes to finding gadgets that might contain illegal images of child abuse, sometimes hidden in metal tins four layers deep inside a filing cabinet.
NSA catches only 10% of data legally, but is it a fair trade off?
That leaves large-scale privacy invasion on 90% of 160,000 analysed messages swept up illegally by the NSA. But credit where credit is due: the legal 10% of intercepts have significant intelligence value, including data about a secret overseas nuclear project and double-dealing by an ostensible ally.
Remember macro viruses? Infected Word and Excel files? They’re back…
In 1995, a macro virus called Concept changed the malware landscape completely for several years. Infected Word and Excel files finally died out in the early 2000s, but as SophosLabs researcher Gabor Szappanos explains…they’re back!