Google quashes 12 Chrome bugs, gives users early Flash fix
Google today patched 12 vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, all of them rated as high-level threats by the company's security team.
Gregg Keizer | 05 Nov | Read more
Google today patched 12 vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, all of them rated as high-level threats by the company's security team.
Gregg Keizer | 05 Nov | Read more
China's strict controls on its Internet usage will eventually fail as more of the country's people go online and express themselves, said Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Michael Kan | 04 Nov | Read more
Wanted by Google: Bounty-hunting hackers who can find security vulnerabilities in popular Web apps.
Jared Newman | 03 Nov | Read more
Google gingerly launched a select set of Street View images for Germany on Tuesday, a country where it has faced some of the most fierce opposition to the imagery application.
Jeremy Kirk | 03 Nov | Read more
Lookout Mobile Security will soon start selling a premium version of its smartphone security software that includes new privacy and backup and restore features.
Robert McMillan | 02 Nov | Read more
Following up on a successful bug bounty program that pays hackers for finding security flaws in its Chrome browser, Google now says that it will pay cash for security bugs reported on its websites.
Robert McMillan | 02 Nov | Read more
Google has confirmed that its Street View program has ceased operations in Australia following the fallout of its Wi-Fi data collection controversy earlier this year.
Chloe Herrick | 29 Oct | Read more
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has closed an investigation into Google Street View cars snooping into open Wi-Fi networks, with the agency declining to take action.
Grant Gross | 28 Oct | Read more
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting a lot of attention lately, not so much for the company's ubiquitous search engine or any of the company's other products. It's more for what Schmidt has been saying about privacy.
Sharon Gaudin | 27 Oct | Read more
As we noted in last year's CSO article, "Six ways we gave up our privacy," people are increasingly -- and willingly -- throwing their privacy to the wind, thanks to an addiction to Google apps, GPS devices, the BlackBerry, iPhone and Android, and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Some security experts believe privacy is dead already.
Bill Brenner | 27 Oct | Read more
A move toward more and more services in the cloud is inevitable, but vendors still need to focus on security, and the U.S. government needs to rewrite privacy laws to protect cloud customers, a group of experts said Tuesday.
Grant Gross | 27 Oct | Read more
I hate to blame the victim, but people who inadvertently gave up personal data to Google's Street View cameras were really asking for trouble.
Bill Snyder | 26 Oct | Read more
Five months after "mistakenly" collecting "fragmented" data from home networks via its Street View cars, Google has confirmed that private emails, Web addresses as well as passwords were among the data captured.
Chloe Herrick | 25 Oct | Read more
Google patched 11 vulnerabilities in Chrome on Thursday as it updated the browser to version 7.
Gregg Keizer | 23 Oct | Read more
Under fire for months over its capture of people's Wi-Fi traffic data, Google has announced several steps aimed at preventing similar missteps in the future.
Juan Carlos Perez | 23 Oct | Read more