Security News

Google is reportedly adding a new feature to its phone app that will breathe a sigh of relief to beleaguered phone users everywhere: Built-in screening for nuisance callers.

Inquiring lawmakers' minds want to know, for one thing, whether our mobile phones are actually listening to our conversations.

The July Android Security bulletin tackles 44 vulnerabilities in all, with the bulk rated high in severity.

Google this week released its July 2018 set of Android patches to address tens of vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system, including several rated as Critical. read more

Google issues a defense of Gmail security following a report into third-party firms accessing users' emails.

Winter HTTPS is coming A looming deadline – now less than three weeks away – means that Google Chrome users who visit unencrypted websites will be confronted with warnings.…

Google this week announced expanded compiler-based mitigations in Android P, in an attempt to make bugs harder to exploit and prevent specific types of issues from becoming vulnerabilities. read more

Privacy advocates are concerned that tech giants are using design patterns that discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy.

Facebook and Google are pushing users to share private information by offering "invasive" and limited default options despite new EU data protection laws aimed at giving users more control and...

Facebook and Google are doing anything they can to nudge users away from data privacy, a Norwegian agency alleged in a new report.