Google Earth accidentally reveals secret military sites
An update to the Google Earth online platform has accidentally led to the exposure of secretive Taiwanese military locations. As reported by the South...
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Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers
Image: Google // Composition: ZDNet A study analyzing the performance of Chrome ad blocker extensions published on Friday has proven wrong claims made by...
Google working on new Chrome security feature to ‘obliterate DOM XSS’
Google has created a new browser API that will help Chrome fight certain types of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, adding another level of protection...
Google Paid Out $3.4 Million for Vulnerabilities Reported in 2018
Google revealed recently that it paid out a total of $3.4 million for flaws reported in 2018 by researchers through its Vulnerability Reward Program...
Google is running an auto-update-to-HTTPS experiment in Chrome
The Google Chrome team will be running an experiment this week in an attempt to find solutions to an HTTPS problem that Mozilla also...
Google Play Store app rejections up 55% from last year, app suspensions up 66%
In a year-in-review announcement today, Google said Play Store app rejections went up 55% last year after the OS maker tightened up its app...
Microsoft Patches Internet Explorer Zero-Day Reported by Google
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 address more than 70 vulnerabilities, including an Internet Explorer flaw that Google researchers have spotted being exploited...
Android and Chrome bug bounty: Google reveals how much it paid out in 2018
Last year Google paid out $1.7m to security researchers who discovered bugs in Android and Chrome, and the same sum again to coders who...
Container Escape Flaw Hits AWS, Google Cloud, Linux Distros
A vulnerability recently addressed in runc could allow malicious containers to gain root-level code execution on the host. Introduced in 2015, runc is a...
Clipper Malware Slips Into Google Play
A piece of Android malware capable of hijacking users’ crypto-currency transactions has slipped into Google Play, ESET security researchers have discovered. Detected as Android/Clipper.C,...