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"Responsible disclosure allows companies like Google to keep users safe by fixing vulnerabilities and resolving security concerns before they are brought to the attention of the bad guys."

There are currently perhaps two other issues lurking in the security shadows for Google. In one particularly active thread in a Google Groups discussion list, posters have alleged that their Gmail e-mails have gone missing or have been deleted. Google apologized in the thread for any inconvenience the issue may be causing.

"Regretfully, a small number of our users -- about 60 -- lost some or all of their email received prior to December 18th," Google spokesperson Courtney Hohne told internetnews.com. "Once we found out about this issue, we worked day and night to confirm that only a few accounts were affected and to do whatever we could to restore as much of the users' accounts as we could."

"We also reached out to the people who were affected to apologize and to work with them to restore the email from any personal backup they might have," Hohne added. "We know how important Gmail is to our users - we use it ourselves for our corporate email. We have extensive safeguards in place to protect email stored with Gmail and we are confident that this is a small and isolated incident."

Security research Rajesh Sethumadhavan posted on another security mailing list that Google's "blacklist" of phishing URLs was now publicly accessible.

Google's Safe Browsing extension is built into the Google Toolbar and integrated into Mozilla Firefox 2.0. Safe Browsing validates URLs against a constantly updated list of known phishing URLs. The problem apparently is that Google may also be catching a bit too much information.

"I just played around a bit with those lists and as it seems, Google did a splendid job, even capturing some people's login data," a poster noted in response to Sethumadhavan.

This article first appeared on internetnews.com.

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