Google makes removal of personal user info from Search easier
Google is making it easier for users to remove personal contact information and personal, non-consensual explicit imagery from Google search results. “Of course, …
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Google ads increasingly pointing to malware
The FBI has recently warned the public about search engine ads pushing malware diguised as legitimate software – an old tactic that has lately resulted in too many …
Users turn to independent search engines for privacy, but also get misinformation
Anti-vaccine websites, which could play a key role in promoting public hesitancy about a potential COVID-19 vaccine, are far more likely to be found via independent search …
How Google applies Europe’s Right to Be Forgotten
Five years ago, after a landmark ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Google began receiving, evaluating and acting upon requests to delist certain URLs …
How Google implements the Right To Be Forgotten
Who is asking Google to delist certain URLs appearing in search results related to their name, and what kind of requests does the search giant honor? The company has been …
DuckDuckGo offers new privacy extension and app
DuckDuckGo, the company behind the eponymous privacy-minded Internet search engine, has announced a new browser extension and mobile app: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. …
Crooks poison results for financial-related searches to deliver banking malware
Cyber crooks are using a clever approach to deliver banking malware to the right victims: they are poisoning the search results for specific banking-related keywords. The …
ThreatMarket: The world’s first security search engine
SecurityScorecard is previewing the world’s first security search engine, ThreatMarket, at Black Hat USA 2016. Comprised of patented and proprietary technology, …