All tech giants fail on security disclosure, but Microsoft and Google do best
A new report ranking of a dozen tech giants finds that all of them could do better at explaining how user data is secured.
A new report ranking of a dozen tech giants finds that all of them could do better at explaining how user data is secured.
The US Government has warned organizations to take extra precautions when using TLS inspection software due to widespread problems with certificate validation.
The OpenSSL cryptographic library is widely used to protect communications between web servers and clients, such as browsers and apps, on the internet. Few consumers knowingly use the software, but it is important enough for Google’s July ban on Android apps in Google Play that used outdated versions of OpenSSL.
University researchers have built an Android app that secretly snatches valuable personal data from other mobile apps, such as webmail, shopping and online banking.
Antone Gonsalves | 23 Aug | Read more
If Yahoo gets it right, then the end-to-end email encryption the Internet company is promising would be a big help to companies concerned with privacy in the use of webmail, experts say.
Antone Gonsalves | 12 Aug | Read more
A group of innovative hackers used free services from Google and an Internet infrastructure company to disguise data stolen from corporate and government computers, a security firm reported.
Antone Gonsalves | 08 Aug | Read more
The easy access Google's web crawlers have to sites is increasingly being exploited by cybercriminals in launching distributed denial of service attacks, a security vendor says.
Antone Gonsalves | 26 Jul | Read more
Google's launch of a bug-hunting initiative has raised concerns over how the company will handle conflicts with vendors unable to patch software before Google's deadline for reporting vulnerabilities.
Antone Gonsalves | 17 Jul | Read more
Google has denied a security vendor report that users of Gmail on Apple iOS could have data intercepted because of a missing security component in the popular app.
Antone Gonsalves | 12 Jul | Read more
Google and Facebook are finding cunning scams in which shysters advertise 800 numbers for bogus tech support that typically leads to people giving up personal data and downloading malicious software.
Antone Gonsalves | 17 May | Read more
Google provided a somewhat morbid reminder of the increasing primacy of digital data in our lives with the release today of the euphemistically named Inactive Account Manager feature.
Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy discovered several flaws in Sophos antivirus and says the product should be kept away from high value information systems unless the company can avoid easy mistakes and issue patches faster.
On Superbowl Sunday, HBGary CTO Greg Hoglund found himself locked out of his own e-mail account. As has since been widely reported in the media, the hacking group Anonymous leaked thousands of e-mail messages from the accounts of Hoglund and HBGary Federal's CEO Aaron Barr, chastising the company in a public statement.
Robert Lemos | 18 Mar | Read more
The malicious code that led Google to remove more than 50 Trojan applications from the Android Marketplace appears to mainly be a "dropper" -- a program designed to load other code to further compromise the affected smartphone, according to a security firm's analysis.
Robert Lemos | 09 Mar | Read more