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Many users – if not all – have experienced downloading a free screensaver or game without looking at the small print and consequently getting their browser …

A very convincing phishing attempt aimed at harvesting users’ Google account credentials has been spotted by a security researcher (click on the screenshot to enlarge …

An alarming proportion of Android applications can find and open private photographs on smartphones, track users’ locations, divulge e-mail addresses over the internet …

Google has, once again, called security researchers to participate in its annual Pwnium contest scheduled to be held at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver in …

Several security flaws in the popular Google Chrome browser can be exploited to turn the computer into a surreptitious listening device, claims Israeli developer Tal Ater. As …

Google has a new problem: original add-on developers are being bought out by ad firms and their creations equipped with code serving ads to unsuspecting users. The practice …

As the onslaught of Android malware continues, the recently released testing results by independent IT-security institute AV-Test show that most providers of Android antivirus …

This Thursday, Google announced that it will, once again, be displaying attached images in emails sent to Gmail users by default. Years back, Google decided to stop doing just …

Newly published documents from Edward Snowden’s trove show that the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ use Google’s “preferences” cookies to follow …

Eight Internet giants have formally urged the US president and Congress to reform and limit government surveillance, and have offered several suggestions on how to do it. AOL, …

Security researchers from German IT consultancy Curesec have uncovered the existence of an Android flaw that could allow hackers to remove all existing device locks activated …

For the fourth year in a row, Google has organized its Code-in contest for pre-university students to contribute to open source projects. “For many students the Google …