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 …
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. …
Reports last week of security flaws in the wireless chips used in a wide range of Apple and Android mobile devices came hard on the heels of news that network-enabled toys are being used by hackers to access personal data. The flaw which was discovered by Google Project Zero security researcher, Gal Beniamini said that …
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 …
The German government has announced new plans to force social media sites to delete hate speech and fake news. Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Facebook and Twitter had failed to regulate themselves. The new measures come two years after Maas’ department created a task force to crack down on “illegal hate speech on the internet,” …
More than 130 Android apps on the Google Play store have been found to contain malicious coding, possibly because the developers were using infected computers, according to security researchers. Google has already deleted the apps from its Play store. The developers behind the apps probably aren’t to blame for including the malicious code, Palo Alto …
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 …
Yahoo is yet again warning users of potentially malicious activity on their accounts between 2015 and 2016, the latest development in the internet company’s investigation of a mega-breach that exposed 1 billion users’ data several years ago. In a statement, Yahoo tied some of the potential compromises to what it has described as the “state-sponsored …
Silicon Valley companies are stepping a fight with the Trump administration. On Sunday night, technology giants Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Uber and many others filed a legal brief opposing the administration’s contentious entry ban. The move represents a rare coordinated action across a broad swath of the industry — about a hundred companies …