Google announces big changes for Android security including new features, a rebranding of old services and an updated UI, all streamlined under a new service called Google Play Protect.
Google Home Gets Notifications, Hands-Free Calling, a TV Interface and More
Google has announced several news features for Google Home to help it better compete against the Amazon Echo. The six new features coming to Google Home include: notifications, free calling to phones in the U.S. and Canada, calendar and reminders,…
Next NSA Exploit Payload Could be Much Worse Than WannaCry
Researchers urge Windows admins to apply MS17-010 before the next attack using the EternalBlue NSA exploit deploys a worse payload than WannaCry ransomware.
How Big Fuzzing helps find holes in open source projects
Google’s beta project, OSS-Fuzz, has found 264 vulnerabilities in 47 open-source projects – so is it an idea whose time has come?
WannaCry Shares Code with Lazarus APT Samples
Experts have confirmed there are similarities between code used by the ransomware WannaCry and the Lazarus APT.
Hospitals rapped for sharing 1.6m patient records with Google
Passing the patient records to the Google-owned company to help it build a health app as ‘inappropriate’, warns watchdog
Google won’t fix Android ‘contentjacking’ flaw for months
Google Play is a bit like a happening nightclub: the faster you let people in, the less time you have to spend keeping troublemakers out.
News in brief: laptop ban could be extended; DDoS hits news sites; Taiwan might block Google DNS
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Microsoft Makes it Official, Cuts off SHA-1 Support in IE, Edge
Yesterday’s Patch Tuesday release also included an update to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge browsers officially ending support for the SHA-1 hash function.
News in brief: Google teases Fuchshia OS; Microsoft patches ‘crazy bad’ flaw; Vienna raps Facebook
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