Security News

Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password
2018-10-15 09:33

In an effort to secure users' data while maintaining privacy, Google has announced a new security measure for Android Backup Service that now encrypts all your backup data stored on its cloud...

Azure goes quiet, Canada mulls Huawei ban, US Senators are after Google, and more
2018-10-13 00:36

Also, Flash fakers seek out crypto marks Roundup This week we caught wind of another Facebook blunder, a dodgy Patch Tuesday bundle, and more China trouble.…

U.S. Senators Demand Internal Memo Related to Google+ Incident
2018-10-12 16:22

A group of United States senators on Thursday sent a letter to Google, urging it to provide an internal memo that supposedly explains why the company did not disclose the Google+ data exposure...

An Assessment of Google's Data Leak
2018-10-12 11:48

An in-depth report on the exposure of personal details for 500,00 Google+ accounts leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also featured: an update on mitigating the risk of business...

Google Adds Control-Flow Integrity to Beef up Android Kernel Security
2018-10-12 09:18

Google has added a new security feature to the latest Linux kernels for Android devices to prevent it against code reuse attacks that allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by...

Industry Reactions to Google+ Security Incident: Feedback Friday
2018-10-12 08:23

Google announced this week that it has decided to shut down its Google+ social network. The announcement also revealed the existence of an API bug that exposed personal information from as many as...

Google Hardens Android Kernel
2018-10-11 17:45

Google this week revealed that Android’s kernel is becoming more resilient to code reuse attacks, courtesy of implemented support for LLVM’s Control Flow Integrity (CFI).  read more

InfluxData integrates with Google Cloud IoT Core to improve users’ IoT environments
2018-10-11 00:30

InfluxData released a Telegraf agent for Google Cloud IoT Core. Now Google Cloud IoT Core users can get insight and analytics from their IoT environments by using the time series database solution...

Google+ wakes up to what the rest of us already knew
2018-10-10 11:17

Google's closing down the platform nobody uses and might face a class-action lawsuit over a G+ spawned breach it took 7 months to report.

Google and Microsoft boffins playing nicely together to stop replay attacks in their tracks
2018-10-10 09:03

Internet Engineering Task Force doc examines how to better protect authentication tokens Google and Microsoft engineers have pooled their efforts to propose a protection against what are known as...