From WikiLeaks to Mega-D, the Week in Security

According to The New York Times, among the cables was one quoting a Chinese person with "family connections to the elite" as saying the Chinese government directed the infamous Aurora attack on Google and other companies, something Chinese officials have denied in the past. Other cables discussed the conflicts between Google and China regarding censorship of the Internet.

The situation could be addressed

Researchers as well told eWEEK the situation could be addressed by requiring browsers to append a string to HTTP headers. The header approach would be a "binary flag," where the browser could turn it on for every HTTP connection, just third party sites or sites defined by the user, said Harlan Yu of the Center for Information Research Policy at Princeton University.

Protecting users drove a partnership between Google and Adobe Systems to bring sandboxing research to a version of Flash Player bundled with Google Chrome 9.0.587.0, currently in Google's dev channel.

The at once few months

"Over the at once few months, we will be testing and receiving feedback on this project," Peleus Uhley, senior security strategist for the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team, wrote in a blog post. "Since this is a distinctly different sandboxing code base from Internet Explorer, we are in essence starting from scratch. To sum up, we all in all have a few bugs that we are working through. We hope that we can use this experience as a platform for discussing sandbox approaches with the other browser vendors."