Sunday, August 17th, 2014
Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps.
Want to see what kind of data it has on you? Check out Google’s own location history map, which lets you see the path you’ve traced for any given day that your smartphone has been running Google Maps.
In the ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
Google today announced that it will soon release a Chrome plug-in that will enable end-to-end encryption for web-based email services. The plug-in is based on the OpenPGP email encryption standard.
Google’s plan here is to make encryption easy enough to use to become widespread among mainstream users. Right now, unless you are fairly technical and ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
Comcast Corp. the nation's largest Internet provider by number of homes and businesses served, Tuesday said it would begin scrambling customers' email to protect it from prying eyes.
The move came just hours after Google called out email providers, including Comcast, for not using encryption. Google Tuesday publicized for the first time the ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2014
Security researchers demonstrated zero-day exploits against Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Adobe Flash Player during the second day of the Pwn2Own hacking competition Thursday, racking up total prizes of US$450,000.
A team from French vulnerability research firm Vupen hacked Google Chrome by exploiting a use-after-free vulnerability ...
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
More than 180,000 Google Chrome users have installed at least one of a dozen ad-injecting extensions that are serving up spam on 44 different websites, according to findings by the threat and research analysis team with Barracuda Labs.
As of Jan. 30, the “logo quiz game” extension has been installed by nearly 82,000 ...
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