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Google has deleted an app from the Play Store that offered to delete Android software associated with China. Demos found online showed it deleting TikTok, the popular messaging app owned by Chinese developer ByteDance, and UC Browser, developed by Alibaba-owned UCWeb.
The intent of the MoU is to make it easier and more affordable for UK public sector agencies to leverage the full range of Google Cloud's services to increase innovation and deliver digital transformation. CCS, the UK Cabinet Office executive agency and trading fund, engaged Google Cloud in 2019 to discuss requirements for cloud services under the One Government Cloud Strategy, a joint initiative between Cabinet Office, CCS and Government Digital Service.
Google has been sued for billions of dollars in a proposed class action alleging the adtech company identified and tracked users who adopted its browser's incognito mode to avoid such tracking. The complaint, filed in Northern California yesterday [PDF], claims that through a combination of means ranging from "Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, and various other application and website plug-ins", the adtech company has identified individuals' IP addresses, "What the user is viewing, what the user last viewed, and details about the user's hardware" while they were in incognito mode.
Britain's National Crime Agency has hit on what looks like a simple way to stop impressionable teens from being sucked into cybercrime - advertise the terrible legal consequences using Google Ads. It sounds too good to be true - can a simple ad deter teen would-be hackers that easily? In fact, the evidence of similar campaigns run by the NCA in the past is that it has some effect.
Google announced on Thursday that it's taking action against misleading and malicious notifications in Chrome with the release of version 84, which is scheduled for July 14. Google classifies abusive notifications as permission request issues, which trick or force users into allowing notifications, and notification issues, which are fake messages that mimic chats, system dialogs or warnings.
"Hack-for-hire" organizations are the latest group of cybercriminals to take advantage of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, using COVID-19 as a lure in phishing emails bent on stealing victims' Google credentials. Researchers with Google's Threat Analysis Group warned that they've spotted a spike in activity from several India-based firms that have been creating Gmail accounts that spoof the World Health Organization to send coronavirus-themed phishing emails.
Arizona has filed suit against Google over tracking users' locations even after they've turned tracking off, claiming that the advertising-fueled tech titan has a "Complex web of settings and purported 'consents'" that enable it to furtively milk us for sweet, sweet ad dollars. This is the way location tracking works: Android users can turn it off with a slider button in the Location section under Settings supposedly.
Google this week announced an expansion for its Vulnerability Rewards Program to include critical open-source dependencies of Google Kubernetes Engine. The announcement builds on the bug bounty program for Kubernetes that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, in partnership with Google and others, announced earlier this year, and which offers rewards of up to $10,000 for vulnerabilities in the project.
Digital rogues are shunning Microsoft in favour of Google when it comes to launching branded spear-phishing attacks, according to threat intel firm Barracuda Networks. The outfit reckons malicious people abusing Google services such as Drive, Docs and Cloud managed to launch 65,000 attacks between January and April.
Digital rogues are shunning Microsoft in favour of Google when it comes to launching branded spear-phishing attacks, according to threat intel firm Barracuda Networks. The outfit reckons malicious people abusing Google services such as Drive, Docs and Cloud managed to launch 65,000 attacks between January and April.