It looks like for the moment at least, all Google results are failing the malware checks and being listed with a warning 'This site may harm your computer,' including all pages from Google themselves.

Google has now posted an explanation, apologizing and taking responsibility for the "human error" that led to the problem.

We've been hearing about a Google Drive online storage solution for years, but lately some tell-tale signs seem to point toward GDrive becoming a reality.

You might be thinking, what's the big deal? Why is TGDaily so excited they want you to throw away your hard drive (recommended only for hyperbolic journalists)?

It's one thing to trust your e-mail to Google, it's another thing to trust the company with the entirety of your digital life. Forget problems of security and privacy, even the basic issue of server downtime leaves many people cold.

TGDaily's fantasy of a network bootable GDrive will be great when fiber optic lines reach our doorsteps, but, in the mean time, most of us have work to do, and unless you want to spend all day booting up, we suggest hanging onto your hard drive.

Job site Monster.com acknowledged a breach of its user database late Friday, warning that online intruders made off with an unspecified number of job seekers' names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, log-in names and passwords.

"We don't comment on investigations in progress or specific security measures," a Monster.com spokesperson stated in an e-mail sent to SecurityFocus on Saturday. "Immediately upon learning about this, we chose to notify all customers and job seekers as part of our ongoing effort to keep users informed about Internet security."

With the launch of President Obama's White House website, three days ago, there has been extensive use of YouTube videos on the site. As we all know Google now owns YouTube and tracks every visitor that lands on the YouTube website or plays a YouTube video.

By Thursday evening the White House website replace the YouTube video player with an image of their own player.

There is really no good reason for Google to track White House website visitors who choose to watch a video that was produced by the White House staff and paid for by the taxpayers.

British ISP Demon Internet is no longer blocking access to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, after working in tandem with the IA to correct a "technical issue" with its child-pornography filter.

The IWF soon confirmed that its blacklist contains at least one image hosted by the Wayback Machine.

Spammers have been hard at work at regaining their past momentum. Over the past year, the botnet landscape has changed, especially since the McColo shutdown.

Some of the former kings of the hill, botnets such as Srizbi, were badly hurt by the shutdown.

Depending on whom you ask the amount of spam declined 50 to 70 percent in the wake of the McColo shutdown in November.

Many "reply all" fiascos result in mere embarrassment, but American diplomats have been told they may be punished for sending mass responses after an e-mail storm nearly knocked out one of the State Department's main electronic communications systems.

He said the result was "effectively a denial of service as e-mail queues, especially between posts, back up while processing the extra volume of e-mails."

Georg Wicherski, Tillmann Werner, Felix Leder and Mark Schlösser have developed software which they have partially disclosed claiming that they can rapidly eliminate the Storm Worm botnet.

However, there is a problem with this discovery. The team has not yet tested this on a real Storm Worm botnet because it might face legal issues in doing so.

Although legal issues would only come up if someone complained, which no one likely would, they are still unable at present to go ahead with eliminating the botnet.

New forms of spam and similar abuse find a welcome home at Google, and the company doesn't yet seem up to the security task of fighting them.

Spammers have had success cracking the CAPTCHA tests and creating Gmail accounts from which to spam. Because the spam comes from a domain reputation systems can't block because it's so popular, spam from these accounts has an advantage in getting past many anti-spam systems.

It didn't take long for anonymity on the Internet to become a contentious issue, and for good reason. Anonymity is problematic.

The founding fathers were serial anonymists. They wrote constantly for public consumption under pseudonyms, I suspect because personal attack in public debate was an even greater problem then than it is now.

Abusive people often hide behind anonymity to intrude on the privacy and rights of others, so services often need to insist in real identities.