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Happy halloween: eight seriously spooky computer threats
This year Lavasoft celebrates the Halloween season with this ghoulish collection of creepy computer threats: zombie botnets, wriggling worms, and scareware! Let's start with the spine-chillingbotnet,a group ofzombiecomputers which have been...
Read moreHacking a pizza deliver app
Some time ago software architect and ethical hacker Paul Price discovered a security flaw in the Domino’s Pizza Android application. Driven by hunger and curiosity he discovered that the flaw could allow him to order as much free pizza, in...
Read moreGoogle'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...
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