Security News

Google in court over ‘clandestine tracking’ of 4.4m iPhone users
2018-05-23 12:14

The search giant could be looking at a giant fine of up to $4.3b.

Microsoft, Google: We've found a fourth variant of Meltdown-Spectre CPU holes
2018-05-21 21:00

Affects Intel and other processor makers Breaking Today, Microsoft and Google Project Zero will reveal a fourth variant of the speculative-execution-based security vulnerabilities in modern...

Microsoft trumps Google, Dropbox in business cloud storage wars
2018-05-21 20:07

A Spiceworks survey highlighted the overwhelming demand for better cloud security, and showed that most companies were turning to the tried and true option of Microsoft.

Researcher Earns $36,000 for Google App Engine Flaws
2018-05-21 12:55

An 18-year-old researcher has earned more than $36,000 from Google after finding a critical remote code execution vulnerability related to the Google App Engine. Part of the Google Cloud offering,...

Google will force Android OEMs to push out security patches regularly
2018-05-18 12:15

Android P, the ninth major version of the widely-used mobile OS, is expected to be released later this year. Google has already announced a slew of security and privacy improvements that will be...

‘Voice-Squatting’ Turns Alexa, Google Home into Silent Spies
2018-05-17 19:43

A team of academic researchers has demonstrated that it's possible to possible to closely mimic legitimate voice commands in order to carry out nefarious actions on these home assistants.

Alexa, Siri and Google can be tricked by commands you can’t hear
2018-05-17 12:47

Researchers have shown how attackers could trick voice assistants.

Google Offers Free DDoS Protection for U.S. Political Organizations
2018-05-17 10:16

Jigsaw, an incubator run by Google parent Alphabet, this week announced the availability of Project Shield – which offers free distributed denial of service (DDoS) protections – for the U.S....

Wanna break Microsoft's Edge browser? Google's explained how
2018-05-15 04:58

JavaScript just-in-time compilation and some memory meddling make a mess Back in February 2018, Google's Project Zero went public with a Microsoft Edge bug that Redmond couldn't fix in time for...

Is Google’s Duplex AI helpful or plain creepy?
2018-05-14 12:19

Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai used the company’s annual I/O event to demo an experimental new feature of Google Assistant: Duplex.