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Google boasts about security and its blog gets hacked
Here's something for the 'you-asked-for-it' file. On Friday, Google's security team was crowing about the company's security policy: "Google takes security very seriously and designs all of its services and applications to protect your privacy and data security."

Your security, yes. But what about its own? Maybe not. This morning Google 'fessed up that a hacker had exploited a bug in Google's Blogger software and posted a fake entry to the official Google blog. The subject matter of the hoax post was obscure - the discontinuation of a click-to-call advertising effort - but it highlighted the potential for mischief on official corporate blogs. Hacks like this will surely be an obstacle to Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's plans to make blogging an investor-relations tool.
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