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Advertising on TikTok is the obvious choice for any company trying to reach a young market, and especially so if it happens to be a travel company, with 44% of American Gen Zs saying they use the...
Google is adding a new AI-powered scam protection feature that monitors phone call conversations on Google Pixel devices to detect patterns that warn when the caller may be a scammer. [...]
Miscreants combine it with an equally tricky piece of social engineering The Ghostpulse malware strain now retrieves its main payload via a PNG image file's pixels. This development, security...
Google has revealed the various security guardrails that have been incorporated into its latest Pixel devices to counter the rising threat posed by baseband security attacks. The cellular baseband...
Google has released the September 2024 Android security updates to fix 34 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-32896, an actively exploited elevation of privilege flaw that was previously fixed on...
A large percentage of Google's own Pixel devices shipped globally since September 2017 included dormant software that could be used to stage nefarious attacks and deliver various kinds of malware. It's currently not clear why third-party software is directly embedded into Android firmware on background, a Google representative said the application is owned and required by Verizon on all Android devices.
Multiple owners of Google Pixel 6 series phones have been reporting in the past week that their devices were "Bricked" after they performed a factory reset. The Pixel 6 series, released in late 2021, is approaching the typical upgrade cycle for many original buyers, and issues with the factory reset process have become significantly more impactful.
Google has warned that a security flaw impacting Pixel Firmware has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The high-severity vulnerability, tagged as CVE-2024-32896, has been described as an...
Google added a new CVE ID to track the Pixel fix for CVE-2024-29748, a vulnerability exploited by several forensics companies, as BleepingComputer reported in April. "It's fixed on Pixels with the June update and will be fixed on other Android devices when they eventually update to Android 15. If they don't update to Android 15, they probably won't get the fix, since it has not been backported. Not all patches are backported."
Google has released patches for 50 security vulnerabilities impacting its Pixel devices and warned that one of them had already been exploited in targeted attacks as a zero-day. Google tagged 44 other security bugs in this month's Pixel update bulletin, seven of which are privilege escalation vulnerabilities considered critical and impact various subcomponents.