Black Hat 2010: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari allow data theft All the most commonly used Internet browsers are vulnerable to exploits that can force them to cough up users’ personal information that can be used to hack into bank accounts or set them up for other attacks, the Black Hat 2010 conference will be told this week.

GreenNet 2010: Google shares its green data center secrets By embracing some fairly basic practices, the average data center operator can reduce his or her facility’s PUE to 1.5. That observation came from Google Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl as he spoke about his company’s strategies for cutting energy consumption at today’s GreenNet 2010 conference in San Francisco

Microsoft cites no-email crawl pledge Microsoft has a big responsibility in maintaining users’ data as part of the company’s hosted applications such as Hotmail, said Tim O’Brien, Microsoft senior director of platform strategy, on Tuesday. But unlike Google, Microsoft pledges not to scan users’ email as a way to tailor advertising, he said. With cloud applications, a level of trust now exists between provider and customer that is “almost unprecedented,” O’Brien stressed at the SaaSCon 2010 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.