On April 14th, 2021 with 6 comments
Google today announced that it is moving FeedBurner to a new infrastructure but also deprecating its email subscription service. From a report: If you're an...
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On February 3rd, 2021 with 56 comments
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), the commercial version of the ubiquitous Defender antivirus and Microsoft's top enterprise security...
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On December 14th, 2020 with 104 comments
Services from Alphabet's Google experienced widespread outages around the world, preventing people from accessing Gmail, YouTube and other services. From a...
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On December 4th, 2020 with 27 comments
A change made in the Google Chrome browser in October has impacted the performance of the Google Fonts service for millions of websites. From a report: The...
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On November 26th, 2020 with 66 comments
In a blog post, hCaptcha announced that its bot detector is running on about 15% of the internet, adding they they "took most of this market share directly...
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On November 2nd, 2020 with 352 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: When he received the notification from Google he couldn't quite believe it. Cleroth, a game developer who asked not to use...
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On October 19th, 2020 with 26 comments
Google's Nest Secure alarm system, which was discussed on Slashdot for featuring an unlisted, disabled microphone, has been discontinued by Google, though it...
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On October 18th, 2020 with 85 comments
The Information reports:
Google's engineering directors are grappling with a worrisome trend: internal data that indicate productivity during the coronavirus...
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On October 14th, 2020 with 41 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google and Intel are warning of a high-severity Bluetooth flaw in all but the most recent version of the...
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On September 27th, 2020 with 7 comments
Google's cloud-based service platform for developing and hosting web apps "can be abused to deliver phishing and malware while remaining undetected by leading...
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On July 9th, 2020 with 10 comments
AI researchers have created a language-model testing tool that discovers major bugs in commercially available cloud AI offerings from Amazon, Google, and...
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On June 22nd, 2020 with 10 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hackers are abusing Google Analytics so that they can more covertly siphon stolen credit card data out...
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On February 17th, 2020 with 16 comments
Brian Krebs sheds light upon a new email-based extortion scheme targeting website owners serving banner ads through Google's AdSense program. "In this scam,...
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On January 29th, 2020 with 18 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google has paid out over $21 million since launching its bug bounty program in November 2010. In the past year alone, the...
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On January 15th, 2020 with 4 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced it is funding a bug bounty program for...
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On January 8th, 2020 with 50 comments
Following in Mozilla's footsteps, Google announced today plans to hide notification popup prompts inside Chrome starting next month, February 2020. ZDNet...
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On January 4th, 2020 with 17 comments
New submitter jasonbuechler writes: Related to the Xiaomi post the other day, Google has entirely disabled Google Assistant/Home integration with Xiaomi...
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On December 12th, 2019 with 14 comments
Businesses often send one-time passwords, account alerts and appointment confirmations via text. But if you've ever received one of those, you know they tend...
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On November 6th, 2019 with 13 comments
Google announced today that it partnered with three private cyber-security firms -- ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium -- to start a new project called the App...
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On November 4th, 2019 with 65 comments
Researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan said Monday that they have found a way to take over Google Home, Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri devices...
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On September 16th, 2019 with 62 comments
Password manager LastPass has released an update last week to fix a security bug that exposes credentials entered on a previously visited site. From a report:...
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On August 27th, 2019 with 34 comments
Kaspersky security researchers have discovered a Trojan Dropper malicious module hidden within the Android app CamScanner that's been downloaded over 100...
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On August 21st, 2019 with 44 comments
Major tech companies including Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, IBM, Intel, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Red Hat today announced intent to form the Confidential Computing...
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On July 19th, 2019 with 27 comments
The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual's data from the servers of...
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On June 20th, 2019 with 30 comments
Google on Thursday confirmed that a bug in its Nest security cameras could have allowed users to be spied on. The Daily Dot reports: The issue was first...
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On June 12th, 2019 with 39 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: In April, Google announced a groundbreaking technology that could allow Android users to use their smartphones as hardware...
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On June 7th, 2019 with 44 comments
A new strain of malware intercepts and tampers with internet traffic on infected Apple Macs to inject Bing results into users' Google search results. The...
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On May 30th, 2019 with 103 comments
Tech giants, civil society groups and Ivy League security experts have condemned a proposal from Britain's eavesdropping agency as a "serious threat" to...
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