Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2019
Google recently shared details about its efforts against malicious advertisement, the giant took down 2.3 billion bad ads last year. Google revealed that it took down 2.3 billion bad ads in 2018, including 58.8 million phishing ads for violation of its policies. Google introduced 31 new ads policies in 2018, aiming at protecting users from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2019
Google Chronicle launched Backstory, the first global security telemetry platform designed to allow companies monitoring cyber threats. Google Chronicle announced Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that allows companies quickly investigate incidents, discover vulnerabilities and hunt for cyber threats. Google aims at analyzing network data and logs generated by enterprises on a daily basis […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2019
Google on Wednesday revealed that it forgot to inform users that its Nest Secure home alarm system includes a microphone. Google announced this week that it forgot to inform users that its Nest Secure home alarm system includes a microphone. “The problem: Nest users didn’t know a microphone existed on their security device to begin […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2019
Google has open sourced ClusterFuzz, its fuzzing infrastructure it has developed to find memory corruption vulnerabilities in Chrome. Google has open sourced its fuzzing infrastructure ClusterFuzz that the tech giant developed to find memory corruption bugs in the Chrome browser. ClusterFuzz is a scalable fuzzing tool that can run on clusters with more than 25,000 cores. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2019
Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli, founder of Yoroi,discovered a way to spread CSV malware via Google Sheets … but Big G says it is anIntended behavior A .CSV file could be a malware carrier and if interpreted by Microsoft Excel it could become a malware executor ! When I personally saw this technique back in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2019
The French data protection watchdog CNIL announced a fine of 50 million euros ($57 million) for US search giant Google under GDPR.The French data protection watchdog CNIL announced a fine of 50 million euros ($57 million) for US search giant Google under GDPR. “On 21 January 2019, the CNIL’s restricted committee imposed a financial penalty […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2018
Google announced it will close the consumer version of Google+ before than originally planned due to the discovery of a new security flaw. Google will close the consumer version of Google+ in April, four months earlier than planned. According to G Suite product management vice president David Thacker. the company will maintain only a version designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2018
Google services were partially inaccessible on Monday due to a BGP leak that caused traffic redirection through Russia, China, and Nigeria. A BGP leak caused unavailability of Google service on Monday, the traffic was redirected through Russia, China, and Nigeria. At the time it is not clear if the incident was the result of an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2018
According to Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report the number of potentially harmful applications has fallen from 0.66% in Lollipop to 0.06% in Pie Google published the first Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report that revealed that the number of potentially harmful applications (PHAs) discovered on Android 9 Pie devices has been reduced by half compared to the previous versions. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2018
Google queries allowed Iran Government to dismantle the CIA communication network used by its agents and kill dozens of tens of spies The alleged hack of the communications network used by CIA agents allowed Iranian intelligence to identify and kill at least 30 spies. According to Yahoo! News the security breach has happened in 2009, the Iranian […]
