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According to Google’s Web Search Help blog, the search giant has decided it’s important to keep search inquiries from the prying eyes:

“With Google search over SSL, you can have an end-to-end encrypted search solution between your computer and Google. This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party. This provides you with a more secure and private search experience.”

TechRepublic’s Chad Perrin recently penned an article about the benefits of SSL-encrypted Web searches. He also advises caution as some searches are not protected by SSL encryption and under certain circumstances SSL is vulnerable.

via Google Search over SSL has an oops | IT Security | TechRepublic.com.

Here are two lists of malware detection tools from Jody Gilbert at TechRepublic:

10 ways to detect computer malware.

10 more ways to detect computer malware.

The fiber-optic outage—actually sabotage—in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals (or terrorists) to bring communication to its knees.

While it’s unclear what exactly happened, AT&T is offering a $100,000 now $250,000 reward to find the vandals that cut into fiber optic wires and whacked everything from hosting centers, 911 calls and other communication. Sam said it best: No matter how advanced we get we’re still hooked up to a big wire somewhere.

That’s not going to change. The big question: How are we going to protect those big wires?

via Jason Hiner at AT&T fiber outage shows how easily attackers could wipe out our communications | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com.