InfoWorld - HD Moore has a matter-of-fact way of talking that belies his uncanny ability to draw the public eye. In just the past month, the 25-year-old Texan, who started the open source Metasploit Project in 2003, made headlines for promising to release a new bug for the Internet Explorer Web browser each day in July. By the end of July, he was in the news again: releasing a Web-based tool that uses the Google search engine to locate malicious programs.

AP - An Arkansas judge Thursday approved a $90 million settlement between Google Inc. and advertisers who claimed the Internet search engine company improperly billed them for "clicks" that didn't lead to genuine customers seeking their products.

Macworld.com - Google is offering to host open source software development projects in a move that has been met with mixed reaction from the developer community online.

A U.S. state judge has approved a $90 million settlement in a Google "click-fraud" case. Lane's Gifts and Collectibles sought the legal action initially in February 2005. However, it was later changed to a group case.

Search-engine firm Google's $90m settlement in a "click fraud" case is approved by a US state judge.

Google's Summer of Code pays hundreds of students to work on open-source projects, hooking them up with big-name mentors. But a few of the kids are feeling the heat. Joanna Glasner reports from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon.

Macworld.com - A judge has given final approval to the settlement of a click-fraud lawsuit, despite critics' characterization of the settlement as a slap on the wrist for Google.

AP - An Arkansas judge on Thursday approved a $90 million settlement between Google and its advertisers who claimed the Internet's leading search engine improperly billed them for "clicks" that didn't lead to genuine customers seeking their products.

AFP - Key Internet freedoms are under threat in a legal battle between online search leader Google and pornography publisher Perfect 10, a prominent Internet rights foundation said.

PC Magazine - A Google official says the company derives a lot of benefit from open-source software and remains committed to ensuring its continued good health.

Yahoo Inc. and Symantec Corp. unveiled a joint consumer Internet security service that will help the two companies compete against major rivals such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

PC Magazine - A source code reviewer in London is working on a project to collect search queries that can be used to identify some of the most common vulnerabilities in open-source code indexed by Google.

Yahoo Inc. in association with Symantec Corp. on Monday launched an Internet security service that will protect the users from threats like viruses and spyware. The move will help the two companies to compete against major rivals such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp....

On Tuesday, Google Inc. announces that the company has begun offering mobile phone users in more than 30 major U.S. cities the capacity to view highway maps with "live" traffic data. Product Manager Gummi Hafsteinsson says the Mountain View, California-based company's product Google Maps for...

Google Maps Mobile adds real-time traffic data for 30 U.S. cities. Plus: The rolling MySpace-out. In Monkey Bites.

Scammers set-up a fake Google site to trick users to download a Trojan backdoor. It uses Google's own redirection feature to hide the real, non-Google address.

Reuters - Google Inc. said on Tuesday that the company has begun offering mobile phone users in more than 30 major U.S. cities the capacity to view highway maps with "live" traffic data.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc. and Symantec Corp. unveiled a joint consumer Internet security service on Monday that will help the two companies compete against major rivals such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp..

AP - A set of plaintiffs in a class-action suit argued Monday that Google has not exercised reasonable care to prevent "click fraud" and has misrepresented efforts to stop swindlers from repeatedly clicking Web site links to drive up advertising costs.

AP - An Arkansas judge begins weighing objections this week to a $90 million class-action settlement between Internet search leader Google Inc. and advertisers who say they were victims of "click fraud."