Google testing new phishing and malware warnings
A Google engineer and a member of the Google Chrome security team has shared on Twitter a new look that is being tested for the phishing and malware warnings seen by Chrome …
Google catches India with fake certificates
As the world becomes more dependent, and some might say blindly so, on digital certificates it’s only natural that attackers will seek to circumvent this trust. Whether …
Google Drive update fixes data-leaking flaw
Google has fixed a security issue that made some of the files stored on Google Drive and shared with friends or colleagues via a direct link potentially reachable by …
Atypical cloned banking app pops up on Google Play
An unusual instance of a cloned banking app has been spotted on Google Play by Lookout researchers: the app steals only the users’ ID, and leaves alone the password. The …
Google forks OpenSSL: BoringSSL will be used in company products
Google has announced another OpenSSL fork. Dubbed BoringSSL, it will, in time, replace the OpenSSL library in various Google’s projects. “We have used a number of …
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, …
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