Security News

Google Report Lauds Android Security Enhancements (Threatpost)
2015-04-02 17:22

Google's first Android Security Report puts some hard data behind the effectiveness of the security enhancements it has put into the OS.

Google Awards $5k Bounty for YouTube Video Delete Bug (Threatpost)
2015-04-02 15:23

A Russian security researcher discovered that he could delete any video on YouTube by sending a simple POST request in YouTube's Creator Studio.

Google boots unwanted ad injector extensions from Chrome Web Store (Help Net Security)
2015-04-02 13:52

Google is done with tolerating sneaky ad injectors and, following the results of a study they recently conducted, they removed from the Chrome Web Store 192 deceptive Chrome extensions that affected 1...

Google decides to stop trusting CNNIC certificates (Help Net Security)
2015-04-02 12:41

In the wake of last week's incident caused by the issuance of unauthorized digital certificates for a number of Google domains by the hands of MCS Holdings, an intermediate CA operating under the Chin...