Bogus hacking Android apps offered on Google Play
Getting your Android apps from Google Play is always a better bet than picking them up from third party online marketplaces, but you also can’t be completely sure you …
Fake AVG AV apps offered on Google Play
However hard Google works to prevent malicious apps from being offered on Google Play, its official online Android market, some always get through. AVG researchers warn about …
Microsoft and Google continue to press US government over transparency
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, announced that Google and Microsoft are tired of waiting for the US government to allow them to publish sufficient data relating …
Fake “Secure Document” notice will compromise your email account
Phishers have lately shown a penchant for using the “secure / confidential document / message” lure for making users share their login credentials. The latest …
Poorly redacted court filing reveals Google contested NSL gag order
A court filing that has been improperly redacted and has recently been made public by the US Department of Justice shows that Google asked a US court to remove the gag order …
Social networks: Can robots violate user privacy?
High-Tech Bridge decided to conduct a simple technical experiment to verify how the 50 largest social networks, web services and free emails systems respect – or indeed …
The erosion of privacy in the digital world
Yves Le Roux is the Technology Strategist at CA Technologies and Chair of ISACA’s Data Privacy Task Force. In this interview he discusses the evolution of the digital …
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 …
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