Security News

Gooligan Malware Breaches 1 Million Google Accounts (Threatpost)
2016-12-01 10:00

The Gooligan Android malware steals Google authentication tokens from mobile devices to breach user and corporate accounts.

Gooligan Android malware used to breach a million Google accounts (Help Net Security)
2016-11-30 19:58

Check Point security researchers have revealed a new variant of Android malware, breaching the security of more than one million Google accounts. The new malware campaign, named Gooligan, roots...

New Cerber Variant Leverages Tor2Web Proxies, Google Redirects (Threatpost)
2016-11-30 12:00

Researchers have discovered that criminals behind the latest Cerber ransomware variant are leveraging Google redirects and Tor2Web proxies in a new and novel way to evade detection.

Google Removing SHA-1 Support in Chrome 56 (Threatpost)
2016-11-17 20:39

Google released its final SHA-1 deprecation deadlines, and crypto services provider Venafi said that 35 percent of the web is still running weak SHA-1 certificates.

Cloud adoption hits all-time high, Microsoft and Google dominate (Help Net Security)
2016-11-16 12:30

With continued growth in use of Office 365 and G Suite, overall cloud adoption has hit an all-time high, according to Bitglass. Fifty-nine percent of organizations worldwide now use one of these...

Facebook, Google ban fake news sources from their ad networks (Help Net Security)
2016-11-15 19:24

Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s dismissive attitude regarding the claim that Facebook had an inappropriate impact on the US elections, the company has moved to bar sources of fake news from its Facebook...

Google to Red Flag ‘Repeat Offender’ Websites (Threatpost)
2016-11-09 18:05

Google's Safe Browsing program expands to include "Repeat Offender” websites in blacklisting program.

Google Safe Browsing goes after repeat offenders (Help Net Security)
2016-11-09 15:17

Google has had enough of sites that repeatedly endanger end users, either through malware, unwanted software, phishing or other social engineering and deceptive tactics. “Over time, we’ve observed...