Security News

Researchers Disclose Further Vulnerabilities in Google App Engine (Threatpost)
2015-05-15 16:44

A group of Polish researchers is claims there are still several outstanding vulnerabilities in Google App Engines, including three complete Java sandbox escapes.

Google Changes Policy on Chrome Extensions (Threatpost)
2015-05-15 15:17

Google is rolling out a new policy that will force all Windows and Mac users to install Chrome extensions only from the Chrome Web store. The company last year began enforcing this policy for...

Security firm publishes details, exploit code for Google App Engine flaws (Help Net Security)
2015-05-15 13:24

Polish firm Security Explorations has published technical details and PoC code for several security issues identified in Google App Engine (GAE) for Java. The company has found over 30 vulnerabilit...

How Google handles "right to be forgotten" requests (Help Net Security)
2015-05-15 12:02

Google has released a new report on its implementation of "right to be forgotten" requests, and has revealed that it has removed 58.7 percent of the URLs it was asked to drop from search results. T...

Google completes ban of extensions not in the Chrome Web Store (Help Net Security)
2015-05-15 10:57

Google is slowly but surely working on preventing developers of malicious Chrome extensions from delivering their wares to users. First, in May 2014, they made it so that extension that are not hos...