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Two Aggresive Campaigns Detected Pushing Google Ads to Unsuspecting Users

Over the past weeks, security researchers from Sucuri and Malwarebytes have discovered two campaigns that abuse hacked and fake websites to push Google ads and trick users into clicking these advertisments, for the crooks profits.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 11, 2017
- 07:26 AM
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Google Patches Security Holes in Android Bootloader for Nexus Devices

Google's automated over-the-air (OTA) update system has plugged a "high-risk" vulnerability that affected the Android bootloader on Nexus smartphones.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 06, 2017
- 06:10 PM
- 0
Google Bans AdNauseam from Chrome, the Ad Blocker That Clicks on All Ads

Google has banned the AdNauseam Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store, an add-on that became very popular with users because it automatically clicked on all ads on a page.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 06, 2017
- 07:05 AM
- 6
Google and Samsung Release Touchscreen-Enabled Chromebook That Runs Android Apps

Today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017, held in Las Vegas, USA, Google together with Samsung will be unveiling the next line of Chromebook laptops that also double as a tablet thanks to its new touchscreen and built-in support for running Android apps.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 05, 2017
- 09:00 AM
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Google Fixes User Tracking Issue in Pixel Smartphones

Google engineers have addressed a serious user privacy bug that affected only versions of the Android operating system installed on the company's latest line of Pixel smartphones.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 01, 2017
- 05:35 AM
- 0
Google Releases Tool to Help Developers Find Crypto Bugs

Google released this week a new tool called Project Wycheproof, which is a set of automated tests developers can run on their code and identify weaknesses or problems in the sections that deal with cryptography operations.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 21, 2016
- 06:51 PM
- 3
Google Employee Sues Company Over "Internal Spying Program"

A man who worked at Google as a product manager in its Nest division is now suing the company over what he and his lawyer describe as an internal "spying program."
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 21, 2016
- 01:50 PM
- 5
Google Spins Off Its Self-Driving Cars Division Into New Company Called Waymo

Google has made important changes to its corporate structure today, when it spun off its self-driving cars unit as a separate company called Waymo, which will now be part of the Alphabet group, a parent company that manages a multitude of other Google-based ventures, such as Calico, DeepMind, Nest Labs, and more.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 13, 2016
- 03:00 PM
- 0
Chrome 56 to Show Warnings on HTTP Pages with Payment and Password Forms

Google Chrome 56, currently in Beta stage, will show a distinctive and visible warning text when users navigate to pages hosted on HTTP that contain sensitive form elements such as fields for password or credit card data input.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 09, 2016
- 04:30 PM
- 2
Google Shrinks Android App Update Size by 65%

Google engineers have found a way to shrink the size of Android app updates once again, revealing that a new technology they've recently started deploying has allowed them to cut down the size of app update packages with 65% on average when compared to the original app APK file.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 07, 2016
- 05:00 AM
- 0
Google Preparing "Invisible ReCAPTCHA" System for No User Interaction

The service helped reduce the time needed to fill in forms, and maintained the same high-level of spam detection we've become accustomed from the reCAPTCHA service.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 05, 2016
- 10:55 AM
- 0
Russian Spammer Uses Fake Google Domain to Tell Webmasters to Vote Trump

Some clever Russian crook has found a way to register a lookalike Google domain by taking advantage of Unicode characters to create an alternative way of spelling Google.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 21, 2016
- 04:35 PM
- 1
Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation as the World Remains the Right Side Up

Almost 15 years after Steve Ballmer had compared Linux and the open source community to cancer, Microsoft announced today that it was joining the Linux Foundation as a platinum member.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 16, 2016
- 02:25 PM
- 11
Google Announces 30-Day Ban for Websites Abusing Safe Browsing System

Google announced today harsher measures against website operators that abuse its Safe Browsing system to distribute malware by pretending to play nice and requesting quick reviews to lift bans, only to revert back to distributing harmful content.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 09, 2016
- 01:00 PM
- 0
November's Android Security Bulletin Patches Drammer and Dirty COW Exploits

Google released today Android's Security Bulletin for the month of November, which among a total of 83 security vulnerabilities has also patched two high profile bugs identified as Drammer and Dirty COW.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 08, 2016
- 02:40 PM
- 0
Google and Mozilla Remove Extension That Was Caught Selling User Data

An investigation by German public broadcaster NDR revealed that MyWOT (WOT, or Web Of Trust) has been selling user data to third-parties without properly anonymizing user information, which in some cases exposed the user's real identity and details about his browsing habits.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 07, 2016
- 05:11 PM
- 1
Google Updates Search Engine Rules, Will Rank Sites Based on Their Mobile Versions First

Google announced on late Friday afternoon plans to use a website's mobile version as the primary content source for ranking sites for its search engine's results, in a move that its engineers have hinted at for the past year at several SEO conferences.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 06, 2016
- 11:00 AM
- 0
Google Ban Spells the End of Controversial Chinese HTTPS Provider

Google has banned WoSign, a Chinese company that provides SSL/TLS certificates to support HTTPS traffic, after both Apple and Mozilla took similar steps in the past month.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 03, 2016
- 11:58 AM
- 1
Google Chrome 53 Secretly Received a 15% Speed Boost on Windows PCs

Google revealed that Chrome had secretly received a speed boost on Windows since the start of September after its engineers had integrated a technology known as Profile Guided Optimization.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 02, 2016
- 12:15 PM
- 0
Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Before Microsoft Can Issue Patch

There's a tiny scandal brewing among two of Silicon Valley's elites after Google engineers have publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting several Windows operating system versions before Microsoft could issue a patch to address the issue.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 02, 2016
- 10:33 AM
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