A hacker broke intoGoogle ’s main functionary blogand posted a fictive substance on Saturday , saying that the company had decide to cancel a joint project with eBay .
The intrusion check off the 2nd time this year that Google ’s official blog has fallen into unauthorised hand . In March , Google staffers erase the so - call Google Blog by misapprehension and someone briefly assume control of the WWW savoir-faire .
In Saturday ’s incident , someone exploited a bug in Blogger , the Google Web logarithm publishing military service on which Google Blog is hosted . The hacker published a note riddle with grammatical and spelling errors that pronounce Google had terminate its click - to - call advertising labor with eBay because it was “ monopolistic . ”
The next day , Karen Wickre , from the Google Blog squad , alerted readersabout the false notice and order the Blogger bug had been fixed , without detailing the breach . The eBay task remain awake and well , she publish on the web log .
The Google Blog is one of the troupe ’s primary communication tools . As official corporal message alike to pressing release , its postings often activate news program reputation , analyst recommendations and investor conclusion .
Key to Google ’s success is that individuals and organizations hope that the companionship will keep their confidential info safe . Public displays of security measure vulnerabilities eat away that confidence .
Google should con a lesson from Microsoft , which did n’t put enough emphasis on security measures years ago and suffered an industry recoil until it vex the problem under ascendance , say psychoanalyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group .
“ I do n’t think security issues have reached a critical full stop for Google , but it needs to get its arms around these kinds of things and put a cheek out to their customers to indicate it is dedicate adequate resources to security , ” he order .
Google can expect attacks against its system to rise , because the more big a troupe is , the more attractive a prey it becomes for malicious hacker , Enderle tell .
“ If Google gets a reputation for not taking security measures seriously enough , that will do them quite a bit of damage , ” he say .
On the consumer side , Google keeps monolithic logs of search queries , a portion of which are immediately linked to specific Google report holders who have given the company license to tail their hunting activities .
For consumer , it also stores personal information like e - mail messages , digital photos and calendar entries via a form of on-line table service like its Gmail Web mail service , Picasa exposure manager and Google Calendar .
Organizations do business with Google on various front , let in to advertise online , analyze their Web situation ’ dealings , summons e - commerce dealings and enforce enterprise search systems , all of which involve entrusting Google with sensitive datum .
Google on Tuesday kicked off its Mac Blog , a position where Google ’s employee will keep the community abreast of what the troupe is doing for Mac user .
A Google spokesman declined to point out beyond Wickre ’s blog posting .
Macworld ’s Jim Dalrymple contributed to this story .
