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Google aims to make Play Store safer, sets up human app review team

The time has come for Google to add some more hoops for Android app developers to jumpt through in order to get their offering accepted to the Google Play store. The first …

Yahoo announces email encryption plugin, password-free logins

Yahoo email users will soon be able to encrypt the emails they send out by simply clicking on a button. In addition to this, users will be able to effectively forget their …

Fake guides and cracked apps on Google Play Books lead to malware

Google has become pretty swift at finding and removing fake and malicious apps from its Google Play store, but there is one part of it where malware peddlers still seem to …

Aggressive adware in Google Play apps

Bitdefender has discovered 10 Google Play apps that have been packed full of aggressive adware. These either subscribe users to premium-rate numbers using scareware messages …

Google scraps Pwnium, invites researchers to submit Chrome bugs year-round

Google is scrapping its annual Pwnium hacking competition which has been held for four years in a row at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, but that doesn’t …

New DDoS attack and tools use Google Maps plugin as proxy

Attackers are using Joomla servers with a vulnerable Google Maps plugin installed as a platform for launching DDoS attacks. A known vulnerability in a Google Maps plugin for …

Google ups efforts to protect users against unwanted software

Google is looking to minimize its users’ exposure to potentially unwanted software, and to that end they have announced a few changes. For one, Chrome users will now see …

Mobile apps left vulnerable for months

McAfee Labs researchers found that mobile app providers have been slow to address the most basic SSL vulnerabilities: improper digital certificate chain validation. In …

Google’s new Cloud Security Scanner detects common security bugs

Here’s some good news for Google App Engine developers: Google has released a new application security scanner that’s especially fitting to test new app builds for …

Google relaxes its rigid 90-day bug disclosure period

Google has announced that its 90-day vulnerability disclosure period will, from now on, be little longer if the situation warrants it. Earlier this year the company was …

Google Play flaw opens Android devices to silent malware installation

Android users are in danger of getting malicious apps silently installed on their devices by attackers, warns Rapid7’s Tod Beardsley, technical lead for the Metasploit …

Why Google won’t be updating pre-KitKat WebKit anymore

Two weeks ago, Rapid 7 researchers discovered that Google will no longer be providing security patches for WebView used in pre-KitKat (v4.4) Android versions, meaning that …

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