Security News

Malware-Laced App Lurked on Google Play For a Year
2018-11-12 17:13

Google Play’s policy prohibits apps or SDKs that download executable code, such as dex files or native code, from a source other than Google Play

Google Introduces Security Transparency Report for Android
2018-11-12 13:28

Google last week added a quarterly Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report to its Transparency Report site.  read more

Google's secret to a healthy phone? Remote-controlling your apps
2018-11-09 20:09

Look Ma, no not much malware! Google has claimed to have cut Android malware by half.…

ThreatList: Google Play Nine Times Safer Than Third-Party App Stores
2018-11-09 17:28

Out of the 2 billion Android users out there, the rate of potential malware infection is less than 1 percent across the board, Google says.

Dropbox strengthens security ecosystem with Google Cloud Identity and expanded partnerships
2018-11-09 05:30

Dropbox strengthened its global collaboration platform by announcing partnerships and integrations that will give Dropbox Business customers access to security features they’ve been asking for....

Google warning: Fix your dodgy ads within 30 days or get banned
2018-11-08 12:31

Having taken what it thought was a decisive swipe at the problem of “abusive” advertising a year ago, Google now says next month’s Chrome 71 will unleash an even tougher crackdown.

DigiCert works with its partners to move past Google’s distrust of Symantec TLS certificates
2018-11-08 02:30

DigiCert has executed a transfer of online trust, marked by the stable release of Chrome 70 that signals the end of Google’s Symantec root distrust plan. In the year since acquiring Symantec’s...

Google Wants More Projects Integrated With OSS-Fuzz
2018-11-07 17:05

Google this week revealed plans to reach out to critical open source projects and invite them to integrate with OSS-Fuzz. read more

Google Removes Vulnerable Library from Android
2018-11-07 10:59

Google this week released the November 2018 set of security patches for its Android platform, which address tens of Critical and High severity vulnerabilities in the operating system.  read more

CIA’s secret online network unravelled with a Google search
2018-11-06 12:06

The US government is reeling from a catastrophic, years-long intelligence failure that compromised its internet-based covert communications.