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Privitar, the leading data privacy platform provider, announced that the Privitar Data Privacy Platform now natively integrates with the Google Cloud Platform. "Traditional security measures such as encryption and attribute based access control are not sufficient as we increase the exposure to sensitive data assets in the cloud. Complimentary privacy controls are essential, particularly for analytics applications that need to optimise data utility," said Jason du Preez, CEO of Privitar.
Google has patched a vulnerability in its Android OS that could allow attackers to completely take over someone's device to install programs, steal or change data, or create new accounts with full privileges. The flaw was one of 39 vulnerabilities affecting Android OS builds that use older security profiles and are spread throughout various components of Android that the company fixed in its latest security patch, according to a security bulletin published Monday.
Unlike most of the shady apps found in Play Store malware, Kaspersky's researchers say, PhantomLance's hackers apparently smuggled in data-stealing apps with the aim of infecting only some hundreds of users; the spy campaign likely sent links to the malicious apps to those targets via phishing emails. Kaspersky's researchers found a similar spyware app, impersonating a browser cache-cleaning tool called Browser Turbo, still active in Google Play in November of that year.
Apple and Google will ban location-tracking by apps using their new coronavirus contract-tracing API, newly renamed ExposureNotification. In a set of guidelines [PDF] for the API released today, the companies said that developers will not be able to access or even seek permission to access location data using the app.
Thales has deployed the world's first GSMA-certified eSIM activation solution on Google Cloud. With telecom operators facing the combined challenges of rapid digital transformation and a drastically growing eSIM ecosystem, Thales has responded by creating a public cloud-based version of its proven eSIM Remote Subscription Platform.
Developers use a number of ways to breed extensions like a bunch of spam bunnies in Google's Chrome Web Store, which is the biggest extension catalog online. User Ratings, Reviews, and Installs: Developers are forbidden from manipulating their extensions' placement in the Chrome Web Store by doing things like cooking up bogus downloads, reviews or ratings.
Google is striving to block Gmail messages and other content that exploit COVID-19, but there are steps users can take to fight such malware.
Google said Thursday its task force devoted to fighting "Bad" ads hawking bogus coronavirus cures, illegitimate unemployment benefits and overpriced medical supplies had blocked tens of millions of messages. Google has blocked and removed coronavirus-related marketing pitches in recent months for policy violations including price-gouging and misleading claims, according to ads privacy and safety vice president Scott Spencer.
With Google Chrome being by far the most widely used web browser, Google must constantly tweak protections, rules and policies to keep malicious, unhelpful and otherwise potentially unwanted extensions out of the Chrome Web Store. The latest change of that kind has been announced for August 27th 2020, when Google plans to boot from the CWS "Low-quality and misleading" Chrome extensions.
Google this week announced a new set of rules for its Chrome Web Store, meant to ensure that developers don't spam users with extensions that have similar functionality. The Chrome Web Store has been available since 2011, offering a total of more than 200.000 browser extensions that allow users to easily customize their browsing experience in Chrome.