Facebook, Microsoft, and Dell sign Cyber Attack pledge
Microsoft, Facebook, Dell and 37 other companies operating in the United States have signed a Cyber Attack pact pledging not to assist offensive government cyber attacks. That means, even if the government of United States desires to launch cyber attacks on the critical infrastructure of its enemy nations ( like Russia, China, and North Korea), […]
Facebook alleges Google, Twitter and Amazon also harvest user data
Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal seems to have started a blame game. In a recent blog post put on the company’s official blog the social media giant has pointed fingers at Google, Amazon and Twitter for using data collection tactics as it does. Furthermore the worlds leading social networking website said that Google […]
Google to offer Self Destructing Email service
Google is all set to soon revamp its ‘Gmail’ service and will probably be offering innovative security tools such as self-destructing emails to messages which will expire after a certain period after delivery. Also, Gmail users will get ‘smart reply’ services allowing users to select automatic responses such as “Thank You” to relevant emails and […]
YouTube to face a billion dollar fine for collecting data of Children under 13
If the probe conducted by the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) turns positive, then Google video streaming service YouTube can face a billion dollar fine for collecting data of children under 13. On further going into the details, Google subsidiary YouTube is being accused of violating the data privacy laws related to children under the age of […]
Google offers DDoS protection to its Google Cloud Platform and G Suite Customers
Google has launched a new tool named VPC Service Controls for protecting API based services on its Cloud and G-Suite Platforms. The objective of the service is simple to prevent hackers from exfiltrating data from the said platforms. And as far as DDoS attacks are concerned, Google is offering a service named Cloud Armor to […]
US law enforcement trouble to Google location data sharing users
All those Android users who have permitted Google to have access to their location data could land into legal trouble if something goes wrong in their Home or Office vicinity. Yes, you’ve read it right! Law enforcement in the United States is nowadays said to be tracking criminals based on their location data. This includes […]
Google to announces a new operating system named Fuchsia
Google released a press statement yesterday saying it is going to soon replace the name of its ‘Android Wear’ with ‘Wear OS by Google’. The reason, the web search giant feels that the latest name better reflects the technology, vision and most important of all- the people who wear watches. Now, the other news which […]
These Android Smart Phone OEMs are touted to be most secure
Do you know which Android Smart Phone OEM offers timely security updates to its users? Any guesses? Well, most of you might name Samsung as the best OEM offering security updates in a timely manner. But in reality, Samsung gets average marks when it comes to security, while Google which offers Android OSes to its […]
Google introduces Security Center for G-Suite Cloud Applications
Google has introduced a new Security Center feature to protect the users of its Google Cloud Products against speculative execution vulnerabilities. The feature gives the admins of G-Suite a centralized view of the key security metrics related to their data and a way to act upon that information in a timely manner. The internet juggernaut […]
Google removes 3 dozen apps triggering Mobile Security Threat!
Internet Juggernaut Google has removed over 36 apps which were triggering threats to its users’ mobile security. The company pulled the said three dozen highly threatening apps from its Play Store in the last week of December after it discovered that they were infected with ad-serving and data-stealing malware. Israel based Check Point Software Technologies […]
