Security News

Privacy Advocates Criticize FTC's Google Settlement
2019-09-04 21:33

Google to Pay $170 Million Fine for YouTube's Privacy ViolationsGoogle will pay a $170 million fine to settle allegations that its YouTube subsidiary illegally collected personal information about...

Brave accuses Google of trampling Europe's GDPR with stealthy netizen-stalking adverts
2019-09-04 21:13

Our ads? Stomping on people's privacy? Never! Not us! sobs search giant Brave, the maker of a Chromium-based browser with a focus on privacy, claims advertising giant Google flouts Europe's data...

Let's recap reCAPTCHA gotcha: Our cunning AI can defeat Google's anti-bot tech, say uni boffins
2019-09-04 18:56

Machine-learning code developed to solve image puzzles just like us netizens Video US-based academics have developed a machine-learning system to beat Google's bot-detecting reCAPTCHA system.…

Google to Pay $170 mn Fine for Collecting YouTube Data From Kids
2019-09-04 18:26

Google agreed Wednesday to pay $170 million to settle charges that it illegally collected and shared data from children on its YouTube video service, a deal critics said was too soft on the...

FBI asks Google for help finding criminals
2019-09-03 10:39

FBI agents issued Google with a warrant in November 2018, seeking its help with a bank robbery the month before.

Google throws bug bounty bucks at mega-popular third-party apps
2019-09-02 10:51

Google’s going to throw more bug bounty money at the problem of nasty apps in its Play Store, it announced on Thursday. In a post from the Android Security & Privacy team’s Adam Bacchus, Sebastian...

Google security crew sheds light on long-running super-stealthy iOS spyware operation
2019-08-30 18:39

Project Zero dissects years-long surveillance campaign Google's Project Zero says more than a dozen iOS flaws that Apple patched back in February had been under attack for years.…

Google security crew sheds light long-running iOS spyware operation
2019-08-30 18:39

Project Zero dissects years-long surveillance campaign Google's Project Zero says more than a dozen iOS flaws that Apple patched back in February had been under attack for years.…

Google discovers websites exploiting iPhones, pushing spying implants en masse
2019-08-30 12:56

Unidentified attackers have been compromising websites for nearly three years, equipping them with exploits that would hack visiting iPhones without any user interaction and deliver a stealthy...

Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug
2019-08-30 09:34

Google is patching a serious bug in the desktop version of its Chrome browser that could let an attacker take over a computer simply by luring them to a website.