Google’s PHP API client users have been warned to watch out for phishing attacks while Google patches a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the code. The bug, discovered by DefenseCode’s Leon Juranic using the company’s ThunderScan source code scanner, has been acknowledged by the Chocolate Factory (as a “nice catch”), and a fix is promised. …
Google and Symantec are engaged in a war about each other’s security practices, with all of us caught in the crossfire. As TechCrunch reports, Google believes that Symantec has been improperly issuing security certificates for tens of thousands of websites. If the search engine follows through with its threat, then Chrome will soon no longer …
A high-speed internet provider owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Fiber unit is making Denver its first new market since being bought by the search giant. San Francisco-based Webpass will debut its $60-per-month, 1 gigabit-per-second internet service at the 31-story Larimer Place condo tower at 16th and Larimer streets in coming weeks. It plans to expand …
Google is facing a potential record anti-trust or web search monopoly abuse fine of approximately 3 BILLION Euros (US$3.4 Billion) from the European Commission in the coming days, according to on.ine reports. After 7-years of the investigation, the European Commission filed anti-trust charges against Google last year for violating antitrust laws. The penalty sum would …
Flash’s ultimate demise has been slow and painful, and now Google is planning to deal it another blow through another update that should be active by the last quarter of 2016. Last year, Google made a slight change that would enable Flash blocking on a very limited scale through “intelligently” pausing unnecessary content as a …
Google software engineer Milinda Perera said this week that the company is now rolling out an HTTPS version of every single blog stored away on the Blogspot domain. The security step means visitors may load up their favorite blog on this specific domain over an encrypted channel which will prevent any surveillance or eavesdroppers from …
Source: securityaffairs.co Experts at Sucuri revealed that cybercriminals are abusing Google Search Console to hide their presence in compromised websites, administrators are advised! Security experts at Sucuri firm have discovered cyber criminals are increasingly abusing legitimate webmaster tools (Google Search Console) for black hat SEO and hide their presence on compromised websites. The operation for …
Good has just opened a floodgate of new .xyz domain registrations, according to a blog by theDomains, The .XYZ registry got thrown into the world stage last night when Google announced the formation of a new parent company, Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz. .XYZ got over 6,000 registrations yesterday including hundreds …
Google is staring at a $1B legal suit Irving Azoff manages the performance rights for roughly 20,000 songs from artists such as Pharrell, John Lennon, and The Eagles through his company, Global Music Rights (GMR) — and he’s planning to sue YouTube for over $1 billion. Azoff’s claim: The online video site has not secured necessary licensing …
Apple, Google, and several other Internet and technology companies are in a race against the clock to get the Senate to approve a bill that will end the NSA’s bulk data collection programs. Known as the USA Freedom Act, S. 2685, the bill aims to stop the government’s collection and storage of the electronic communications …