Security News

Google Tightens Rules Around App Permissions
2018-10-09 19:23

Google this week announced improved user control over data shared with apps, redesigned app permissions, and diminished app access to sensitive information such as contacts, SMS, and phone. read more

Google Launch Event Overshadowed by Privacy Firestorm
2018-10-09 15:43

Google was supposed to be focusing Tuesday on its launch of a new smartphone and other devices, but the event was being overshadowed by a firestorm over a privacy glitch that forced it to shut...

Google+ Privacy Snafu Leaves a Cloud Over the Tech Landscape
2018-10-09 15:11

Google was caught not disclosing a potential data breach -- leaving questions as to whether a lack of transparency is the new normal.

Google ramps up G Suite protections against government-backed attacks
2018-10-09 11:19

Security alerts become opt-out by default from 10 October because so few admins opted in.

The end of Google+: Low usage and an API bug that exposed user data
2018-10-09 10:11

Google has announced that it will be closing down the consumer version of Google+, its failed answer to Facebook, and is introducing more granular Google Account permissions, new limits for...

Google Forced to Reveal Exposure of Private Data
2018-10-09 08:18

Consumer Google+ Set For Shutdown; Google Hid the Data-Exposing BugGoogle blames a bug in an API for its Google+ social networking service for exposing personal details for about 500,000 users'...

Google now minus Google Plus: Social mini-network faces axe in data leak bug drama
2018-10-08 22:22

Project Zero would have been all over this – yet it remained under wraps Google has surprised Google+ users – all two of them – by shuttering the service over the next ten months in the wake of a...

Google Says Social Network Bug Exposed Private Data
2018-10-08 20:13

Google announced Monday it is shutting down the consumer version of its online social network after fixing a bug exposing private data in as many as 500,000 accounts. The US internet giant said it...

Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users' Data
2018-10-08 19:33

Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to...

Google Criticizes Apple Over Safari Security, Flaw Disclosures
2018-10-08 10:03

One Year After Release, Google Fuzzer Still Finds Many Flaws in Safari One year after it was released as open source by Google Project Zero, the Domato fuzzer has still found a significant number...