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Google's new security features
Google is introducing new warnings for social engineering sites to its Safe Browsing service. Social engineering is a broad category of deceptive online content, typically a website which disguises itself as a trusted entity such as a bank,...
Read moreGoogles new privacy tool four important settings
Google has introduced a new “About me”pagewhich displays your collected user data from across various Google services and allows you to update, limit or delete the information. The page displays the information available to Google services such...
Read moreGoogle play and apple app stores distributing malware
Researchers atCheckPointSoftware have discovered a new form of malware being distributed through a popular application in the Google Play Store. “The malware, packaged within an Android game app called BrainTest, had been published to Google Play...
Read moreGoogle planet will id your location with ai
Google is working on a new system that can identify the location of an image just by looking at it. Developed by Tobias Weyand, a computer vision specialist at Google, the goal of PlaNet is a computer system which can see a photo and instantly...
Read moreGoogle is watching...err listening to you
We're used to the saying, "Big Brother is watching you." Could the future be, "Google is listening?" As advancements in computer technology become more and more sophisticated, so does the ability to personalize it. We know about cookies, caches,...
Read moreGoogle and Yahoo adopt dmarc: is a globa antispam system possible?
One of the challenges in combating spam and phishing emails is the diverse ecosystem of email software, validation services, blacklists, certifications, and other variables that have evolved as email rapidly became a ubiquitous mode of...
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