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Google might have mistakenly shared your private videos saved on the company's servers with other users, the tech giant admitted yesterday in a security notification sent quietly to an undisclosed number of affected users. According to a screenshot Jon Oberheide of Duo Security shared on Twitter, the issue reportedly remained active between 21st November and 25th November last year, during which "Some videos in Google Photos [service] were incorrectly exported to unrelated user's archives."
That's the simple way that Google started its Super Bowl ad, which featured an elderly man's voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife. Google's Super Bowl spot featured no celebrities.
OpenSK, a new open-source project from Google, lets folk make their own security key for less than £10. Google offers its own Titan security key for two-factor authentication with FIDO U2F and using this or an alternative device goes a long way to protect an account from unauthorised access or takeover.
OpenSK, a new open-source project from Google, lets folk make their own security key for less than £10. Google offers its own Titan security key for two-factor authentication with FIDO U2F and using this or an alternative device goes a long way to protect an account from unauthorised access or takeover.
Google might have mistakenly shared your private videos saved on the company's servers with other users, the tech giant admitted yesterday in a security notification sent quietly to an undisclosed number of affected users. According to a screenshot Jon Oberheide of Duo Security shared on Twitter, the issue reportedly remained active between 21st November and 25th November last year, during which "Some videos in Google Photos [service] were incorrectly exported to unrelated user's archives."
Interested in using hardware security keys to log into online services more securely? Well, now you can make your own from scratch, thanks to an open-source project that Google announced last week. Google has released an open-source implementation called OpenSK. It's a piece of firmware that you can install on a USB dongle of your own, turning it into a usable FIDO or U2F key.
Google on Thursday announced that it has released the source code for a project named OpenSK in an effort to allow users to create their own security key devices. Specifically, the company hopes that researchers, manufacturers of security keys and even enthusiasts will help develop new features and accelerate the adoption of these authentication devices.
Google has open-sourced OpenSK, firmware that, combined with an affordable chip dongle, allows you to make your own security key to use for authentication purposes. About OpenSK. OpenSK isan open-source implementation for security keys that supports both FIDO U2F and FIDO2 standards.
Google paid out $6.5 million in bug-bounty rewards in 2019, which doubles the internet behemoth's previous annual top total. Requested quarry includes apps that violate Google Play, Google API and Google Chrome Web Store Extension privacy policies.
Google claims it paid out over $6.5 million through its bug bounty programs in 2019, which brings the total awarded by the company since the launch of its first program in 2010 to more than $21 million. The total amount paid out in 2019 was nearly double compared to the previous year, and Google says the researchers who took part in its bug bounty programs donated an all-time-high of $500,000 to charity.