Now that the patches across various platforms for the recently discovered Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities have largely been deployed, Google has detailed how it managed to address these threats on its cloud services such as Gmail and Search before the public even knew about them. Hint: It wasn’t easy. In a lengthy blog post Thursday, …
Two years ago in October 2015 Kaspersky published a blogpost about a popular malware that was being distributed from the Google Play Store. Over the next two years they detected several similar apps on Google Play, but in October and November 2017 the security software maker found 85 new malicious apps on Google Play that …
“Fake news” and other misinformation, online propaganda, and satirical content people believe is true have filled the web via search engines and social media, and have caused a rift in how people perceive today’s news organizations and the quality of their coverage. A nonpartisan effort called The Trust Project is working to address this situation by …
The latest case of Windows Movie Maker scam involves cyber-criminals using their SEO skills to drive a modified version of the now defunct software, delivered from the bad guy’s site, to the top of Google’s rankings resulting in the malware quickly spreading. When downloaded the malware does nothing to the computer, but attempts to convince …
A glitch in the popular Google Docs service resulted in users getting locked out of their documents on Tuesday because, according to a message, they had violated the company’s terms of service. The issue has now been fixed, but the incident is raising some uncomfortable questions for Google. “Obviously this is raising questions in a …
Google’s campaign to make HTTPS security ubiquitous has been underscored once again by the news that it is to implement HSTS preload on 45 Top-Level Domains (TLDs) it controls as part of its domain registrar business. The organization has announced that they are beginning to use another tool in our toolbox, the HTTPS Strict Transport …
Two domain registrars have stated that the Daily Stormer violated their terms of service. The website was banned following a derogatory story about the woman killed at the Charlottesville, Virginia, rally. Godaddy said wants nothing to do with the site following a piece on Heather Heyer. Heyer died after a car rammed a crowd of …
The European Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service. The company must now end the conduct within 90 days or face penalty payments of up to 5% of …
Google has launched a new cloud-based service called IoT Core that enables its enterprise customers to manage their IoT devices, as well as collect and analyze the data those devices produce. IoT Core has access to all its data processing, analytics, and machine learning capabilities of Google’s cloud and supports devices equipped with Intel, ARM, …
The Ninth Circuit has for the second time ruled [PDF] that “Google” isn’t a generic trademark. The US district court had already reached this conclusion in 2014. The court’s opinion delves deeply into definitions, says plainly that “verb use does not automatically constitute generic use.” This eviscerates the plaintiff’s case because, as Judge Watford says …