Security News

Alphabet's reported $23B bet on Wiz fizzles out
2024-07-23 14:32

Cybersecurity outfit to go its own way to IPO and $1B ARR On the day of Alphabet's Q2 earnings call, cybersecurity firm Wiz has walked from a $23 billion takeover bid by Google's parent company.…

Signal adopts new alphabet jumble to protect chats from quantum computers
2023-09-20 20:28

Signal has adopted a new key agreement protocol in an effort to keep encrypted Signal chat messages protected from any future quantum computers. Quantum computers - which every decade experts believe may be able to crack today's encryption schemes within the next decade or two - aren't particularly useful at the moment.

Alphabet's Chronicle Launches Security Telemetry Platform
2019-03-05 06:44

Chronicle on Monday announced the launch of Backstory, a security telemetry platform that allows organizations to store and quickly analyze large amounts of data. read more

Alphabet snoop: If you're OK with Google-spawned Chronicle, hold on, hold on, dipping into your intranet traffic, wait, wait
2019-03-05 02:04

No, no, it's not an April Fools. Backstory wants to sniff your packets for hackers RSA Google-spawned security outfit Chronicle this week unveiled a service that analyzes telemetry data from...

Alphabet's Jigsaw Helps Users Identify Phishing Attacks
2019-01-23 11:08

Jigsaw, a unit of Google’s parent company Alphabet, on Tuesday made available a quiz that tests users’ ability to identify phishing attacks and teaches them what signs to look for to determine...

Rhode Island Sues Alphabet Over Google+ Security Incidents
2018-12-13 06:58

A government organization in Rhode Island announced on Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., over the recent security incidents involving the...

Alphabet in the soup for keeping quiet about Google+ data leak bug
2018-10-16 20:10

Investors sue over failure to 'fess up in financial filings Google's parent has been hit with a lawsuit for failing to disclose to investors a bug – secretly fixed in March – that could have...

Alphabet enters enterprise cybersecurity market, launches Chronicle
2018-01-25 19:16

Google’s parent company Alphabet has announced its entry into the lucrative enterprise cybersecurity market through Chronicle, a company started in early 2016 as a project at X, Alphabet’s...