Cisco partners with Google Station to provide sustainable public Wi-Fi
Cisco announced that it is working with Google Station on a mission to include one billion people in the growth opportunities of the digital economy. The program will provide …
Adiantum: A new encryption scheme for low-end Android devices
Google has created an alternative disk and file encryption mode for low-end Android devices that don’t have enough computation power to use the Advanced Encryption …
Google’s new Chrome extension flags insecure passwords
As the number of compromised and leaked credentials rises inexorably with each passing day, Google has decided to help users choose safe combinations for all their online …
Google also abused its Apple developer certificate to collect iOS user data
It turns out that Google, like Facebook, abused its Apple Enterprise Developer Certificate to distribute a data collection app to iOS users, in direct contravention of …
Industry reactions to Google’s €50 million GDPR violation fine
On 21 January 2019, the French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) imposed a financial penalty of €50 million against Google, in accordance with the GDPR. This is the …
G Suite warns admins about domain data exfiltration attempts
Google has rolled out new options for the G Suite alert center, to help administrators battle phishing emails more efficiently and spot data export operations initiated by …
Another API bug spurs Google to ditch consumer Google+ sooner than planned
Google has unearthed another Google+ API bug, which prompted it to accelerate the sunsetting of all Google+APIs and that of the consumer version of Google+. The API bug The …
Chrome 71 is out, with several security changes
Google has released Chrome 71 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The newest version of the popular browser comes with 43 security fixes and many new features, including …
Chrome will start warning users about shady mobile subscription pages
Google has announced that, starting from Chrome 71, users will be explicitly warned when attempting to visit pages that try to trick them into signing up for mobile-based …
New techniques expose your browsing history to attackers
Security researchers at UC San Diego and Stanford have discovered four new ways to expose Internet users’ browsing histories. These techniques could be used by hackers …
InfluxData integrates with Google Cloud IoT Core to improve users’ IoT environments
InfluxData released a Telegraf agent for Google Cloud IoT Core. Now Google Cloud IoT Core users can get insight and analytics from their IoT environments by using the time …
The end of Google+: Low usage and an API bug that exposed user data
Google has announced that it will be closing down the consumer version of Google+, its failed answer to Facebook, and is introducing more granular Google Account permissions, …