gollum123 shares a report by Sean Illing via Vox: “Google is a digital truth serum,” Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies , told me in a recent interview. “People tell Google things that they don’t tell to possibly anybody else,…

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Google has released a reCAPTCHA API for Android, a first for the mobile applications.

Enjoy the latest episode of our computer security podcast!

Taking design cues from WannaCry, a fake copy of the popular King of Glory game is being used to spread ransomware

Google removed a rooting an Android Trojan called Dvmap from Google Play that injects malicious code into an infected device’s system library.

Rogue ads at the top of search results are targeting you for tech support scams – here’s what to watch out for

With more and more of us resorting to blocking the ads that turn websites into the digital equivalent of Piccadilly Circus’s neon landscape, we look at what Google’s move to control adverts in Chrome means

In February, the Wall Street Journal blocked Google users from reading free articles, resulting in a fourfold increase in the rate of visitors converting into paying customers. The tradeoff, as reported by Bloomberg, is a decrease in traffic from Google….

What’s going on under the hood of the Judy apps we wrote about last month? We had a look – and didn’t like what we found