Notice of Class Action Settlement RE Google Plus
To all those who are living in United States and have used Google+ account for any specific period between Jan 2015 to April 2019, here’s a class action settlement notice issued by Alphabet Inc’s subsidiary Google. And FYI, the notice is being issued to all users who have been impacted because of software vulnerability in […]
Google Dunzo suffers a data breach
Dunzo, a Google owned on-demand delivery startup has released an official statement on Saturday that it has suffered a major data breach, likely exposing email address and phone numbers of its users. According to the press statement released by the CTO Mukund Jha later on Saturday, the data breach occurred because of a server infiltration […]
Ransomware news trending on Google
The first and the foremost ransomware news trending on Google is related to Russian hackers targeting work from employees of some multinational firms- including Fortune 500 Companies. According to a research carried out by Cybersecurity firm Symantec, a noted hacking group from Russia dubbed ‘Evil Corp’ was seen targeting employees working from home and […]
Google makes changes to its Data Retention Laws
Google has made changes to its data privacy laws by giving its users the privilege of customizing the feature of how long the search engine giant maintains and stores the search and location history on its servers. The internet juggernaut has started sending an email to all its customers regarding privacy change and is urging […]
United States conducting ‘Mass Surveillance’ through Google
According to a survey conducted by an email firm ProtonMail, the government of the United States is reported to be using technology firms like Google and Facebook to conduct mass surveillance from the last decade or so. Now evidence is out that the data requests put forward by the government to Google are said to […]
Google faces $5 Billion lawsuits for foxing users through Incognito mode
A class-action lawsuit was filed in San Jose, California against internet juggernaut Google for foxing users through Incognito mode. The lawsuit defines clearly that the web search giant was fooling its users by keeping a track of their online activities even in the private mode of the browser which is against the rules. In general, […]
Google removes the app from the Play store that boycotts Chinese apps
All these days there was n number of speculations in the media that technology giants like Apple Inc and Google are going to boycott Chinese online services and products like TikTok from their search engines and app stores due to security reasons and for launching a bio war on the world in the name of […]
Microsoft and Google security update their respective Virtual Machines
Microsoft and Google have made it official that their Virtual Machine instances on a respective note can now process highly sensitive information making it difficult for cloud admins to access or tamper information while in process. Also, the latest update will make it extremely difficult for hackers to induce malware into Trusted Executed Environments(TEE). So, […]
Mobile Security alert as Google removes 600 apps downloaded 4.5 billion times
Google has stated that it has removed over 600 apps from its Play Store- howbeit not before there were downloaded 4.5 billion times on an overall note. The intention of the tech giant with the move was clear; to keep its apps store free from spam which violated its ad policies. According to the statement […]
Google Android 11 OS focuses more on Data Privacy
As Google opened the doors of Android 11 for developers last week the web search giant has insisted that its focus will be more on data privacy for this segment of the operating system. For instance, the upcoming version might include the feature where apps will get one-time access permission to access location or camera […]
