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Chrome plugin aims to thwart user profiling efforts

Inspired by a piece of fictional software described in Cory Doctorow’s book Little Brother, developer Ben West created a browser plugin that should, in theory, make it …

Cyber crooks misuse Google service to control Android Trojans

Cybercriminals have been spotted using a novel method of controlling Android mobile malware: a legitimate service called Google Cloud Messaging. GCM has been created to allow …

Google increases rewards for Chromium bug reports

It has recently been proved that setting up bug bounties is a cheaper option than hiring full-time bug hunters, and Google’s two bug bounty programs – Google Web …

Free tool for auditing Google Apps

BeyondTrust released PowerBroker Auditor for Google Apps, available for free, to the BeyondTrust user community. The tool was developed to ease the burdens associated with …

Compromising Google Accounts and enterprises via flaw in Android SSO

When it comes to Android, Google has traded security for convenience, says Tripwire security researcher Craig Young. During his recent presentation at Def Con in Las Vegas, he …

ESET Mobile Security for Android gets an update

ESET rebuilt and redesigned ESET Mobile Security for Android. The next generation mobile product offers improved scanning, Anti-Phishing module and a completely redesigned …

The scary implications of Google Glass

Google Glass, for all its promise, has some scary implications. Here is my list of potential challenges we face with Glass: User experience Social awkwardness Privacy (or lack …

Apps exploiting Android “Master Key” bug offered on Google Play

Researchers from security firm Bitdefender have unearthed two relatively popular apps on Google Play that leverage the infamous Android “Master Key” bug, but …

Android backup sends unencrypted Wi-Fi passwords to Google

The recent revelations on how Internet giants such as Google, Yahoo, Apple and others are compelled by the US government to give its agencies access to user data have …

Researchers find, Google fixes Glass hijack flaw

Google Glass is scheduled to be made widely available to regular consumers by the end of this year, so the Internet giant has still time to fix the most obvious security flaws …

Bug bounties are cheaper than hiring full-time bug hunters

Software companies that have instituted bug bounties are on the right track, a recently published report by researchers of the University of California, Berkeley computer …

“Google account hacked” text scam puzzles researchers

A curious spamming campaign continues to target Google users via their mobile phones, and researchers still don’t know what it actually does. First spotted back in …

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