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Google on Wednesday began a legal bid at Britain's highest court to try to block a class action alleging that it illegally tracked millions of iPhone users. In October 2018, the High Court dismissed the case but the Court of Appeal overturned the decision in October 2019, allowing it to proceed.
An update released this week by Google for Chrome 90 patches yet another serious vulnerability affecting the V8 JavaScript engine used by the web browser. Liu told SecurityWeek that the flaw can be exploited for remote code execution in the targeted user's browser, but noted that, similar to other recently disclosed V8 vulnerabilities, it does not escape the Chrome sandbox - a sandbox escape bug is needed to exploit CVE-2021-21227 in real world attacks.
It turns out, this header, now being returned by GitHub sites, is actually meant for website owners to opt-out of Google FLoC tracking. BleepingComputer also noticed the entire github.com domain had this header set, indicating GitHub did not want its visitors to be included in Google FLoC's "Cohorts" when visiting any GitHub page.
It turns out, this header, now being returned by GitHub sites, is actually meant for website owners to opt-out of Google FLoC tracking. BleepingComputer also noticed the entire github.com domain had this header set, indicating GitHub did not want its visitors to be included in Google FLoC's "Cohorts" when visiting any GitHub page.
UK consumer watchdog Which? has found that ad giants Google and Facebook are failing to remove online scam ads even after victims report them. A third of those reporting scam ads to Google found the same offending ads still present, while the figure was a quarter for antisocial media site Facebook.
Researchers have uncovered a new set of fraudulent Android apps in the Google Play store that were found to hijack SMS message notifications for carrying out billing fraud. The apps in question primarily targeted users in Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, attracting a total of 700,000 downloads before they were discovered and removed from the platform.
Google has released Chrome 90.0.4430.85 to address an actively exploited zero-day and four other high severity security vulnerabilities impacting today's most popular web browser. PoC dropped on Twitter, zero-day fixed one week later.
Google late Tuesday shipped another urgent security patch for its dominant Chrome browser and warned that attackers are exploiting one of the zero-days in active attacks. This is the fourth in-the-wild Chrome zero-day discovered so far in 2021 and the continued absence of IOC data or any meaningful information about the attacks continue to raise eyebrows among security experts.
Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud's leading data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies with its factory automation solutions to help manufacturers innovate for the future. While AI projects have been deployed by many companies in "Islands" across the plant floor, manufacturers have struggled to implement AI at scale across their global operations.
Google Alerts continues to be a hotbed of scams and malware that threat actors are increasingly abusing to promote malicious websites. While Google Alerts has been abused for a long time, BleepingComputer has noticed a significant increase in activity over the past couple of weeks.