Internetsecurity, a major concern to stakeholders.

A few weeks ago the Government had a series of cyber attacks by some I.T gurus from halfway around the globe, as the story goes. Apparently, hackers in town have now had a good business season as they can now legally make money from companies who are ready to pay them have their firewalls cracked.

On the other hand, S.E.O giants, Google, are having a similar problem with online security.  Late in the week, a researcher at Stanford University discovered that Google and several other advertising companies were bypassing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser. Although Google admitted it “now started removing these advertising cookies,” the news brought a fresh example of the risks of online browsing to Internet privacy.

With all bad publicity Google has undergone in the past few months Jon Mitchell of ReadWriteWeb urged users to “give Google a break”. Some experts ague that G+ is making  Google forget about other important matters and going too much social, Really?

In contrast, John Battelle argued that it was Apple which “broke with common web practice”:

“Let’s step back a second here and ask: why do you think Apple has made it impossible for advertising-driven companies like Google to execute what are industry standard practices on the open web (dropping cookies and tracking behavior so as to provide relevant services and advertising)? Do you think it’s because Apple cares deeply about your privacy? An how many hacckers out there do you think are in Kenya and do need a job?
Really?”