Researchers discover more BadNews on Google Play
The recently discovered BadNews Android malware was again discovered lurking on Google Play. The Trojan has indeed been bad news for the users that downloaded it unwittingly …
Set your Google account to be deleted after you die
Google has rolled out an interesting feature: the Inactive Account Manager. Aimed at providing some peace of mind for privacy minded users that worry what will happen with …
Bitdefender launches Antivirus Free for Android
Bitdefender has launched Antivirus Free for Android, which offers smartphone owners a free, fast and powerful antivirus solution that taps the latest in-the-cloud scanning …
Spammers bypass spam filters with Google Translate links
Google Translate is the latest trick in spammers’ arsenal for bypassing email spam filters, warn Barracuda Labs researchers. Spam filters work by evaluating (among other …
Beware of fake Candy Crush apps on Google Play
Whenever a mobile game becomes hugely popular, it also becomes a great way for scammers and malware peddlers to lure users into unknowingly installing malicious apps on their …
“Confidential document on Google Docs” leads to account hijacking
A simple phishing scam aimed at harvesting users’ Google credentials is hitting inboxes around the world, warns Hoax-Slayer. “Please view the document i uploaded …
Google unveils site to help webmasters recover their hacked sites
As the most widely used Internet search engine, Google Search is the de-facto starting point for hundreds of millions of queries each day. It you are an administrator of a …
Google reports on non-court ordered FBI data requests
With every new Transparency Report that Google releases biannually since 2009, new information about data requests from government agencies are included. This last report, …
Scammers use Google glasses as lure
The great interest that the upcoming release of Google glasses has generated in the public is being actively exploited by cyber scammers, warns Trend Micro. Counting on the …
CloudLock unveils Community Trust Rating
CloudLock unveiled the Community Trust Rating as part of its Cloud Information Security Suite at RSA Conference 2013. The third-party application trust assessment system uses …
Google 2-step login verification flaw allows account hijacking
Duo Security researchers have found an easy way to bypass Google’s two-step login verification by capturing a user’s application-specific password. “To make …
Google account hijacking dramatically reduced
Google employs many security measures to thwart would-be Google account hijackers, and not all are highly visible as the two-factor authentication option introduced in 2010 …
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