NSA has direct access to Google, Facebook, Apple servers
After yesterday’s news that Verizon is compelled to share all phone call metadata with the NSA on a daily basis comes the incendiary revelation that the spy agency has …
Google researcher publishes Windows 0-day exploit
Less than two weeks after Google researcher Tavis Ormandy released information about a new Windows zero-day vulnerability on the Full Disclosure mailing list and asked for …
U.S. judge orders Google to share user info with the FBI
Google has been ordered to comply with FBI requests for user information that came in the form of National Security Letters (NSLs) by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston. …
Google won’t allow facial recognition on Glass
Whether Google Glass ships out to regular users later this year or the next, one things is sure: it won’t make use of facial recognition software – for now. The …
Questioning Google’s disclosure timeline motivations
The presence of 0-day vulnerability exploitation is often a real and considerable threat to the Internet – particularly when very popular consumer-level software is the …
Google defines disclosure timeline for actively exploited bugs
The debate regarding responsible vulnerability disclosure and full vulnerability disclosure has been started many times in the past, and it’s an issue that will continue …
Google set to upgrade its SSL certs
As a fine example of proactive security, Google has announced that it will be upgrading its SSL certificates to 2048-bit keys by the end of 2013. “We will begin …
Google researcher reveals another Windows 0-day
Tavis Ormandy – the Google researcher known for discovering a slew of Windows, Java and Flash Player vulnerabilities and zero-days and his combative attitude regarding …
Aurora attackers were looking for Google’s surveillance database
When in early 2010 Google shared with the public that they had been breached in what became known as the Aurora attacks, they said that the attackers got their hands on some …
U.S. Congress has questions about Google Glass and privacy
Members of the U.S. Congress’ Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus have sent an open letter to Google CEO Larry Page, questioning the company’s privacy consideration when it …
Font apps on Google Play deliver spyware
Everybody should know by now that downloading apps from Google Play is not as safe as we all would like. Admittedly, the probability of downloading malware is much smaller …
Google Glass hacked, could be used for spying
The advent of Google Glass – the Augmented reality, head-mounted display that looks like a pair of glasses (albeit a little more high-tech) and allows users to access …
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