Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch posted a list of security problems that Google has had in the past. They are no different than any other enterprise when it comes to security matters. Everybody has issues but the important thing is to acknowledge and address them efficiently.
From TechCrunch:
July 2004: Gmail secuity issue allows unauthorized access to others’ registration information.
January 2005: Gmail security flaw allows unathorized viewing of others’ emails.
November 2005: Gmail bug allowed hackers to take complete control of a victim’s Gmail account.
March 2006: Google accidentally deletes its main official blog. They write “We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d’oh!)â€
July 2006: Writely document appears that seems to show internal confidential Google information on the Platypus project.
October 2006: Google blog hacked and fake post published, quickly taken down.
October 2006: User complains that blog posts through the Blogger API are being published on someone else’s blog.
October 2006: Google accidentally releases Google Platypus software.
–Chris
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