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How Google handles “right to be forgotten” requests

May 15, 2015

Google has released a new report on its implementation of “right to be forgotten” requests, and has revealed that it has removed 58.7 percent of the URLs it was …

Google completes ban of extensions not in the Chrome Web Store

May 15, 2015

Google is slowly but surely working on preventing developers of malicious Chrome extensions from delivering their wares to users.First, in May 2014, they made it so that …

Researcher neutralizes Google’s Password Alert with a few lines of code

May 1, 2015

Google’s Password Alert extension for Chrome, which was released on Wednesday, has received its first critical security update less than 24 hours later, as infosec …

Chrome extension protects your Google account from phishers

April 30, 2015

Google developers have created Password Alert, an open source Chrome extension that aims to prevent users from entering their Google password in a phishing site or, …

How Google saw the DDoS attack against Github and GreatFire

April 27, 2015

The recent DDoS attacks aimed at GreatFire, a website that exposes China’s internet censorship efforts and helps users get access to their mirror-sites, and GitHub, the …

Google blocks Java plugin in new Chrome by default

April 15, 2015

Google has released Chrome 42 to the stable channel, and among the changes announced is one that will automatically block Oracle’s Java plugin and other plugins that use …

Large malvertising campaign linked to potentially compromised Google ad reseller

April 8, 2015

Dutch infosec firm Fox IT has spotted a lage scale malvertising campaign that seems to originate from Bulgarian Google ad reseller EngageLab. The first redirection has been …

Google boots unwanted ad injector extensions from Chrome Web Store

April 2, 2015

Google is done with tolerating sneaky ad injectors and, following the results of a study they recently conducted, they removed from the Chrome Web Store 192 deceptive Chrome …

Google decides to stop trusting CNNIC certificates

April 2, 2015

In the wake of last week’s incident caused by the issuance of unauthorized digital certificates for a number of Google domains by the hands of MCS Holdings, an …

US tech giants urge Congress to curb mass digital surveillance

March 27, 2015

As the date of the expiry of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act draws near, a wide range of tech companies, privacy advocates, and trade associations have asked the US …

Half of all Android devices vulnerable to installer hijacking attacks

March 25, 2015

A critical Android vulnerability that has been discovered over a year ago and responsibly disclosed to Google and other Android manufacturers can be exploited by attackers to …

Polymorphic security warnings more effective than same, static ones

March 19, 2015

In the last year or so, we have witnessed Google becoming increasingly interested in providing effective warnings that would spur users into making good decisions regarding …