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Gustuff Android malware from Russia with love. Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, has discovered a new breed of Trojan horse malware called Gustuff, which specifically targets Android phones to steal banking credentials and digital assets of users. The malware targets customers of cryptocurrency exchanges and mainstream international banks. As per the analysis of Group-IB, the malware […]
Google’s Chrome 74 beta is out for Windows, and it will lead to the introduction of Dark Mode on Windows devices. Dark mode on Windows can be enabled by heading to the Settings menu and will be switched on automatically if the user has opted for a system-wide dark mode option. Additionally, the mode will […]
Ahrefs, a leading SEO firm, is planning to launch a search engine that supports content creators and provides user privacy. The announcement was made by Ahrefs CEO Dmitry Gerasimenko who revealed plans to compete with the dominant search engine, Google. Dmitry has proposed a more free and open web where content creators can directly generate revenue from […]
In an incident, which is both hilarious and surprising, a man has accepted that he stole millions from two of the major tech companies — Google and Facebook — by faking bills of purchases the company never made. 50-year-old Evaldas Rimasauskas, from Lithuania, came up with a deemed perfect plan to extract and ask for money […]
Google has released the specifications of its upcoming game streaming platform known as Google Stadia. The game streaming platform from the tech giant will use custom made processor and an ultra-fast graphics card in its forthcoming console. While the CPU will be a 2.7GHz x86 custom-made chip with hyper-threading and 9.5 MB L2+L2 cache, AMD […]
This week a Lithuanian citizen pleaded guilty of having collaborated to implement a fraud scheme against Google and Facebook for over $100M USD, reported the International Institute of Cyber Security and experts of ethical hacking training in India. Evaldas Rimasauskas, 50 years old, pleaded guilty of the charge of electronic fraud before a district judge […]
By sheer coincidence, Google and Facebook one after another had their system downtimes and the world felt it heavily. We came into the realization that we depend on these two companies on how: we communicate; how we speak with each other; how to entertain ourselves and how to share our everyday lives with our acquaintances. […]
Backing up photos and videos can be a pain, especially when the internet connectivity is poor. To solve the issue, Google has introduced a new Express feature in Google Photos which will make sure all your photos are backed up with ease. Introduced back in December to a small group of users in India, the Express backup […]
Leveraging the network of its highly efficient and scalable server infrastructure, Google has finally launched its much-anticipated game streaming service called Stadia. The announcement took place at the company’s keynote at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. With Stadia, Google has promised to make any AAA gaming title playable on any device with a Chrome browser and […]
Along with smartphone advancements, there is a niche segment of feature phones that caters to many in developing countries. Expanding its reach to that very niche, Google could soon introduce Android to feature phones. According to a report by 9To5Google, a “Touchless” mode for Chrome has been found which hints at the web browser’s entry on feature phones, in addition to […]
Back in school, I clearly remember exchanging chits when I had to converse with my friends during class. Today, technology has upped the game, and Google Docs seems to be a new messaging app for teenagers to befool teachers and parents while being in their strict jurisdiction. A new report by The Atlantic suggests that […]
Before the official launch of the foldable smartphones, Google was also a part of the rumor mill to hop onto the bandwagon. Now, another patent filed by the company suggests that a foldable Google device is in the pipeline. According to a report, the patent suggests that Google’s foldable smartphone will fold inwards, much like […]
Most of the applications infected by SimBad malware are simulator games. The IT security researchers at Check Point have discovered a sophisticated malware campaign that has been targeting Android users through Google Play Store on a global level and so far more than 150 million users have fallen prey to it. Dubbed SimBad by researchers; the malware disguises […]
A Google employee from Japan has broken the world record for the number of digits of pi calculated. Emma Haruka Iwao, a cloud developer advocate at Google, calculated pi to 31,415,926,535,897 digits (stop counting, its 31 trillion digits) thus breaking the previous record of 22,459,157,718,361 (9 trillion) digits set back in 2016. Pi is the number we get when […]
The all new Samsung Galaxy S10 family has been released by Samsung on 8th March, 2019 and despite the high price & a lazy start, the Galaxy S10 has made a record in pre-orders for Samsung in the US. When the pre-orders for Samsung Galaxy S10 family began, there were rumors and conflicting reports about […]
To say that Google knows more about you than you know about yourself would not be an exaggeration. In a fresh attack on Google, Oracle has submitted a 17-page attachment titled “Google’s Shadow Profile” to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s digital platform inquiry. Oracle has accused Google of building profiles of Australian users by logging […]
Google Chrome’s Data Saver feature helps load pages faster when there is low network connectivity on Android devices. In addition to this, the Chrome Lite Pages now work with secure websites apart from the regular ones. Chrome now optimizes HTTPS pages by showing a ‘Lite’ indicator in the URL bar, much like it does with […]
Voice recognition is a must-have on a smartphone these days and trying to improve it further for better usage, Google has now introduced an all-neural, on-device speech recognition system on Gboard. Until now, Google has been using cloud-based processing. It uses a “decoder graph” — a component of the algorithm which matches spoken words to written […]
A lawsuit has claimed that Alphabet CEO and Google co-founder Larry Page didn’t get approval from the board of the company when he passed a $150 million stock grant to Android creator Andy Rubin. The suit alleges that Rubin was under an internal investigation for sexual harassment, according to a Bloomberg report. While the lawsuit was […]
It wasn’t very long ago that I revealed that most free VPN services are provided as a front for the big corporations running them to collect user that. Spurred by the findings of that study, I decided to dig deeper to see how much of a threat, especially when it comes to user data, Android VPN […]
A few weeks back, word broke about Google’s mystery online gaming project which involves a game streaming service powered by Chromecast. Now, a newly discovered patent reveals the design of a gaming controller which the upcoming gaming service would rely on. It is an internet-connected game controller which would be independent of any one host device. The patent details a notification system for […]