Data Breach Today

JULY 7, 2022

Google Plans to Delete Certain Location Data; What Can Other Entities Do?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For the second time in as many years, Google is working to fix a weakness in its Widevine digital rights management (DRM) technology used by online streaming sites like Disney , Hulu and Netflix to prevent their content from being pirated. ” Google called the weakness a circumvention that would be fixed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

Google is going to delete data records related to the ‘Incognito Mode’ browsing activity to settle a class action lawsuit. Google has agreed to delete billions of data records related to users’ browsing activities in ‘Incognito Mode’ to settle a class action lawsuit. Both statements are untrue.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit, which alleged that the company monitored individuals using the Chrome “incognito” mode. Google agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit over claims that the company monitored online activity of people who used the ‘incognito’ mode in its Chrome web browser.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 3, 2023

CrowdStrike's Michael Sentonas on Aiding Education Clients With XDR for Chromebooks CrowdStrike has focused on bringing its extended detection and response technology to users with less expensive devices such as Chromebooks by adding support for Google's ChromeOS.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Technology Giant Issues Warnings to Targeted Individuals Across 149 Countries Google has directly warned more than 12,000 users across 149 countries that they have been targeted by government-backed hackers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Google’s TAG revealed that Commercial spyware vendors (CSV) were behind most of the zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in 2023. Google’s TAG tracked the activity of around 40 CSVs focusing on the types of software they develop. ” reads the report published by Google. ” concludes Google.

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Jamf

APRIL 24, 2024

Google Cloud Next. Learn how Jamf enhances the Apple ecosystem with Google technologies, fostering better security and productivity for businesses

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 21, 2020

Apple”) and Google LLC (“Google”) to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of COVID-19 by building contact-tracing technology into iOS and Android smartphones. The CTF being developed by Apple and Google is not itself a contact tracing application.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

model from Google, and it’s really impressive. And remember, given the current state of technology, prompt injection attacks are impossible to prevent in general. Simon Willison has been playing with the video processing capabilities of the new Gemini Pro 1.5 Which means a lot of scary new video prompt injection attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year Award Thales was selected as the Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year in the Security – Data Protection category. Protecting our customers from cybersecurity threats brings us immense satisfaction, and being recognized for our efforts is both humbling and validating.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. ” As ZDNet notes , Apple, Google and Microsoft already support these passwordless standards (e.g.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2023

Guest expert: Eyal Benishti, CEO, Ironscales Successful attacks slip past legacy security email gateways (SEGs) and even past the newer ‘ cloud-native security ’ controls that Microsoft and Google have embedded Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. These filters look for known bad attachments and links.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Google is making passkeys, the emerging passwordless login technology, the default option for users as it moves to make passwords “obsolete.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

Earlier this month, Google disclosed that a supply chain attack by one of its vendors resulted in malicious software being pre-installed on millions of new budget Android devices. Google didn’t exactly name those responsible, but said it believes the offending vendor uses the nicknames “ Yehuo ” or “ Blazefire.”

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Computer scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have managed to compromise multiple artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, including ChatGPT, Google Bard and Microsoft Bing Chat, to produce content that breaches their developers' guidelines—an outcome known as "jailbreaking."

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 22, 2019

Record Privacy Fine Sends Strong Signal to Data-Processing Technology Companies France has hit Google with a 50 million euro ($57 million) fine for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2024

The funding will be used for core research and development to build new AI technology and products to protect against generative AI threats, such as deepfake social engineering and autonomous fraud. As an early Google employee, he helped build Gmail and grow AdSense.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Keynotes for FIDO, Google and Yubico Discuss Remaking MFA, Next Steps for Passkeys Multifactor authentication was supposed to be the standard, but the sharp rise in highly successful MFA bypass attacks shows the industry needs to go further in verifying identities.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

Simply download Dropblock today from the App Store or from the Google Play Store to get 5GB of secure blockchain storage for free. Dropblock uses patented data encryption and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, developed by Web3 data storage specialists, OmniIndex. How does Dropblock’s secure blockchain storage work?

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Schneier on Security

JULY 12, 2023

No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years: Research and development : Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It is my own “login with me” service implemented as a personal login-as-a-service (LaaS) like “Login with Google” or “Login with Facebook” but self-hosted instead. But that will change thanks to modern technologies based on blockchains. . the address book web app). Sharing protocols.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The passwordless technology is becoming popular because Apple, Google, and Microsoft have a solution for accounts recovery, but enterprises are slow-walking their passkey adoption plans.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Google completed the acquisition of the threat intelligence firm Mandiant, the IT giant will pay $5.4 Google announced the completion of the $5.4 NASDAQ: MNDT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google LLC for $23.00 ” reads the Google’s announcement.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 10, 2023

However, as Bleeping Computer pointed out , this flaw is caused by a weakness in the open-source “ libvpx ” video codec library, which was previously patched as a zero-day flaw by Google in the Chrome browser and by Microsoft in Edge , Teams , and Skype products. This vulnerability has earned a CVSS severity score of 9.8 (10

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As attacks grow in number and sophistication, these smaller organizations will need technology that tightly integrates with modern productivity suites such as Microsoft 365 and/or Google Workspace that also provides comprehensive threat intelligence.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. In 2023, Google (TAG) and Mandiant discovered 29 out of 97 vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.

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CILIP

APRIL 15, 2024

CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Gary Horrocks THE summer 2023 issue of UKeiG’s open access journal, eLucidate , featured my reflections on the implications of a Members’ Day presentation by Ken Chad on the “library technology ecosystem". Are the LMS we know and love dead in the water? How do we get that balance right?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2022

Google addressed a critical vulnerability in Android OS, tracked as CVE-2022-20345, that can be exploited to achieve remote code execution over Bluetooth. Google has fixed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20345, that affects the Android System component. Google did not disclose additional details about the vulnerability.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

On November 14, 2022, Google LLC (“Google”) agreed to a $391.5 The investigation by the state attorneys general found that, between 2014 and 2020, Google misled users by failing to disclose that toggling the “Location History” setting to off did not disable all tracking activities.

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Collibra

MARCH 29, 2023

On the heels of our Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery Designation , we’re excited to announce that Collibra has now received Google Cloud Ready – AlloyDB designation. This designation is another important milestone in our partnership with Google Cloud.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

LOCKBIT RANSOMWARE GANG DEMANDED AN 80 MILLION RANSOM TO CDW The Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the technology services giant CDW and threatens to leak the stolen data. USERS TO CHINA WERE FOUND IN GOOGLE PLAY STORE Two apps on the Google Play Store with more than 1.5 TWO SPYWARE SENDING DATA OF MORE THAN 1.5M

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

Technology companies developed automated models to take on this massive task of filtering content, ushering in the era of the algorithmic publisher. The most familiar, and powerful, of these publishers is Google. Unlike human publishers, Google cannot read. Long term, this will be destructive.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 23, 2023

The Information today reports that Mozilla plans to integrate GPT-like chat technology into its widely used Firefox browser. Mozilla has long partnered with Google for search, yielding a reputed hundreds of millions in revenue as a result. ” Michelle begs to differ. ” Michelle begs to differ.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This is why Google invented the invisible reCAPTCHA and other newer versions of reCAPTCHA. Simply put, there are many different companies offering CAPTCHA solutions at the moment, and reCAPTCHA is Google’s brand of CAPTCHA solution. Google often calls this version the no CAPTCHA-reCAPTCHA. What actually is reCAPTCHA?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Google Threat Analysis Group and Google Project Zero first reported that the CVE-2023-33106, CVE-2023-33107, CVE-2022-22071 and CVE-2023-33063 are actively exploited in targeted attacks. The company is also warning that three other zero-day vulnerabilities are actively exploited in attacks in the wild.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Google, Microsoft and Apple are bitter arch-rivals who don’t often see eye-to-eye. Passwordless technology is certainly ready for prime time; innovative solutions from suppliers like Cisco’s Duo, Hypr, OneLogin and Veridium have been steadily gaining traction in corporate settings for the past few years. Here are a few takeaways.

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