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To make sure Chrome users aren't utilizing weak passwords, Google Chrome's Safety check feature will alert you if your passwords were found in data breaches. Google is now working on a new feature that will automatically detect and highlight weak passwords when performing a Safety check, as shown below.

Google Project Zero white-hat hacker Ian Beer on Tuesday disclosed details of a now-patched critical "Wormable" iOS bug that could have made it possible for a remote attacker to gain complete control of any device in the vicinity over Wi-Fi. The exploit makes it possible to "View all the photos, read all the email, copy all the private messages and monitor everything which happens on [the device] in real-time," said Beer in a lengthy blog post detailing his six-month-long efforts into building a proof-of-concept single-handedly. "A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory," the iPhone maker noted in its advisory, adding the "Memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation."

CyrusOne announced new options for direct connectivity to Google Cloud, with the addition of five new direct on-ramps in Aurora, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and the newly operational Council Bluffs facility. As part of Google Cloud Interconnect, the new direct connect locations provide CyrusOne customers with simple, cost-effective solutions for creating hybrid cloud environments tailored to their specific business needs.

Google Chrome will soon let you search through your open web pages to find that missing page lost among a sea of tabs. To help with this mess, Google is testing a new 'Tab Search' feature in the Chrome Canary builds that allows you to search your open tabs for a particular keyword.

Google is slowly rolling out a new feature to Google Chrome 87 that allows you to type commands in the address bar that perform specific browser actions. This new feature is called 'Chrome Actions' and allows you to type in a command, causing an action to be displayed in the address bar search results.

UPDATED Infosec researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence unit spotted a pair of prominent Chinese apps leaking personal data, and after it informed Google the ad giant dumped the apps from its Play store. Baidu says the personal information was only used to enable push functionality and that the privacy agreement in its apps disclosed that use.

Did you know that Google has a VPN for Android? It's called Google One VPN, and it's secure, fast, and incredibly easy to use. The Google VPN hides your IP address to prevent third-parties from tracking you and doesn't use the VPN connection to track or log your activity.

Multiple Android mobile apps found in Google Play, including Baidu Search Box and Baidu Maps, were found by researchers to be leaking data that could be used to track users - even if they switch devices. Researchers found the apps in question to expose a range of information, including: Phone model; screen resolution; phone MAC address; wireless carrier; network; Android ID; International Mobile Subscriber Identity; and International Mobile Equipment Identity.

Google faces fresh regulatory scrutiny in Britain over plans to revamp its ad data system, after an industry lobbying group complained to the competition watchdog that the changes would cement the U.S. tech giant's online dominance. The new technology would remove so-called third party cookies that allow users to be tracked across the internet by storing information on their devices, replaced by tools owned by Google.

Google's Privacy Sandbox took another knock today as Marketers for an Open Web wrote to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority requesting a block on the technology's launch. Google is walking a tightrope with its Privacy Sandbox project.