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Scan of Google Play apps reveals thousands of secret keys

A team of researchers from Columbia University has downloaded and decompiled over 880,000 applications found on Google Play, and has discovered – among other things …

GCHQ legally intercepts Google, Facebook users’ communications

A successful legal challenge has forced the UK’s top counter-terrorism official to reveal the (until now) secret government policy that allows the GCHQ to intercept …

How apps and extensions affect your browsing

Google has announced the newest version of the Chrome Apps & Extensions Developer Tool, which helps developers debug apps and extensions, and power users to see which …

Google End-to-End: The encryption silver bullet?

The world seems to be turning its attention to the notion of data encryption, and Google is the latest to jump on the bandwagon. On June 3rd, Google announced that it would be …

Comcast will start encrypting email to and from Gmail accounts

Google’s unveiling of a new section to its Transparency Report that, among other things, shows which services support encryption in transit, has quickly lead to another …

Google unveils source code for Chrome encryption extension

Google has made publicly available the source code for a new Chrome extension that helps users encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign, and verify signed messages within the browser …

12,000 users ask Google to forget them

12,000 pleas from users looking to be forgotten have been submitted to Google in the first 24 hours since the company created a dedicated submission page for such requests, …

Fake Android soccer gaming apps just show ads

As the soccer world cup in Brazil is coming close, the offering of soccer-related apps on the Google Play store is big, at least 125 different vuvuzela apps are available. …

Google Image Search results redirect to Browlock ransomware

Browlock is the most basic approach to ransomware there is: there is no actual malware that blocks the victims’ computer or encrypts its contents, there is only a Web …

Sophisticated Google Drive phishing campaign persists

Symantec researchers are once again warning about a sophisticated and persistent phishing campaign targeting Google users. The victims are hit with fake emails sporting a …

Google adds new security features to Google Apps

Here is some welcome news for Google Apps Business, Government and Education customers: the company has implemented three new security features to protect them from phishing, …

Google, Facebook combat tech support advertising scams

TrustInAds.org, a new organization founded by AOL, Facebook, Google and Twitter aimed at protecting people from malicious online advertisements, has issued a report that …

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