Security News

Google Study Quantifies Ransomware Profits (Threatpost)
2017-07-27 16:00

A ransomware study released Google revealed the malware earned criminals $25 million over the past two years.

Google Detects Dangerous Spyware Apps On Android Play Store (The Hackers News)
2017-07-27 01:31

Security researchers at Google have discovered a new family of deceptive Android spyware that can steal a whole lot of information on users, including text messages, emails, voice calls, photos,...

Google Takes Second Swing at OAuth Worm (Security Week)
2017-07-26 17:56

Mitigations put in place by Google in May 2017 to help block phishing attacks such as the recent OAuth worm weren’t enough to completely mitigate the issue, as Google's platform still allowed...

Google Groups misconfiguration leads to sensitive data leaks (Help Net Security)
2017-07-25 16:56

If your employees are using Google Groups to discuss issues and ideas, you might want to check whether the sharing setting for these groups is set to “Private”. According to RedLock researchers,...

Google Play Protect scans for malicious apps (Help Net Security)
2017-07-24 19:02

By now, many Android users that have the Google Play Store app on their devices should be able to find Google Play Protect in it. What is Google Play Protect? Google Play Protect is a security...

Misconfigured Google Groups Expose Sensitive Data (Security Week)
2017-07-24 16:08

Researchers at cloud security firm RedLock believe hundreds of organizations may be exposing highly sensitive information by failing to properly configure Google Groups. read more

Google Rolls-Out Play Protect Services for Android (Security Week)
2017-07-24 13:31

After introducing the product at the Google I/O conference in May, Google has now made its Play Protect security services available to all Android users. read more

Google drops the boom on WoSign, StartCom certs for good (ArsTechnica)
2017-07-20 21:57

Citing “certificate misissuance,” Google to expire all certs from offenders by September.

Google introduces new protections to prevent app-based account compromise (Help Net Security)
2017-07-19 17:47

Google has implemented new protections that should considerably reduce the risk of potentially malicious apps gaining control of users’ Google account. There can be no doubt that the added...

Google Warns Users of Potentially Risky Web Apps (Security Week)
2017-07-19 14:45

Google is taking another step to better protect users from malicious third-party web applications: it is now warning users of newly created web apps and Apps Scripts that are pending verification....