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New day, new phishing attack! This time, it’s the Apple id which has been used by the attackers to steal from the innocent users. A phishing email has been discovered alerting Apple users that their Apple ID would be suspended if they do not complete a verification within time. The email further states that the […]
Google has denied all the accusations that were put forward regarding monitoring or censoring of those YouTube videos that are made for inciting attacks on Israel — Google claims their recent meetings were routine and had no such agreements. Though, a statement from Israeli foreign ministry last week said that the Google’s executives had agreed […]
Short Bytes: In the developing markets, making web browsing on mobile a great experience, is a challenging job for smartphone makers and web browsers. To make this experience faster and save your data, Google has updated the data saver mode in Chrome for Android. Read more to know how to activate it and save your […]
Diane Greene, well-known tech expert and co-founder of VMware, is now senior the vice president for Google’s enterprise businesses. The New York Times reported that Google has also acquired Bebop Technologies, Greene’s startup and pioneer in cloud technology. Ms. Greene, is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UC Berkeley and is one of […]
Google has decided to tighten up those loose strings that hinder their efforts to offer comprehensive protection to its users against internet attacks and phish campaigns. In this regard, Google has added a new feature to Gmail, which will notify you whenever an unencrypted email lands into your inbox. This new feature is aimed at […]
Short Bytes: Search Engine is a software that allows the display of relevant webpage results based on the search query input by the use of Web Crawling and Web Indexing, some fat formulae and intelligent algorithms in order to gather the appropriate data. A few thousand searches were made in the time this webpage got […]
Short Bytes: Our innocent habit of copy-paste is reflected when we send the URLs of search pages as some reference to our friends. But, it comes with the risks of exposing your previous searches, if done carelessly. Read the post to know the risk involved and how to avoid it. Using the Google search to […]
Google began to implement SSL on its search engine back in 2010. First on its own domain name, then as a mandatory feature for logged in Google users, and after a while for all users on the main Google Search website. Workarounds to use HTTP instead of HTTPS on Google Search existed ever since […]
Short Bytes: Accomplished Google hacker James Forshaw thinks that Microsoft has delivered a “good” operating system, but it has failed to ensure the overall user security. He praised it for some improvements and called it the “Two step forward, One step back” moment for Microsoft. When we talk about the features and functionalities added in […]
Researchers at an IT security company Heimdal Security have discovered a number of compromised web pages ranked on google for keywords like Java JRE, MSN 7, and Windows 8. Basically, while searching for software like Java JRE, MSN 7 and Windows 8 users are finding compromised pages ranked in the top positions. The file on these […]
Researchers have discovered a malware that takes over Chrome as a browser and looks quick similar to chrome in every aspect. The malware is based on Chromium open-source software which allows it to maintain the same interface as chrome and for a normal user this thing is very difficult to identify. The browser instead of […]
An alert from Carnegie Mellon University CERT database reveals how Android devices are affected by LTE security flaw and use for DDoS attacks. The alert says nearly all the users on Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks are vulnerable to denial of service attacks (DDoS) from the hackers. The most vulnerable are the android users on […]
Hacking SIRI and Google Now silently from 16feet away now possible via Headphones, claim ANSSI Researchers. French researchers at the government’s information security agency ANSSI have surpassed everyone else in the field of technology.. or so it seems… since they have managed to hack Apples personal assistant SIRI without even speaking a word. Not to […]
Apple news (Currently in testing mode) has been taken down in China by the company itself. The reason behind this seems obvious: Strict internet laws and surveillance by the Chinese government. Though, Apple has a very big market in China (2nd largest to be precise) it still had to take down its new service. According […]
Short Bytes: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg takes a dig at Google in his AMA session saying, “It is a myth you need to track people to make money in Web search”. There are less evil ways to make money and the self-proclaimed privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo abides by the ethics. Its CEO Gabriel Weinberg, in his […]
Short Bytes: “Parisa Tabriz-The Security Princess” is Google’s guardian who protects the tech giant from the ‘black hat’ attackers. She is Google’s biggest weapon against the outside hackers. There is no such thing as unhackable. We know it, you know, and the hackers know it too. All we can do is take measures for our safety […]
Smartphones of Android users are again under a malware attack, this time with unsolicited unwanted ads. Did you know hackers develop Android malware every 17 seconds? Well, this one is one of them. Android users in more than 20 countries have become victims of an aggressive malware program that hammers their android devices with unwanted advertisements. […]
Image Credit: BusinessInsider Short Bytes: Top tech giant like Google and Microsoft are worth billions and credit their working teams for the achievement. But, how much does each employee help is worth to the company? Read further to know. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among the many prestigious brands that people would love to work […]
The risk of remote hacking is triggered through the faults in the media processing components that may be misused by malicious websites. Experts have identified some major flaws in the way media files are handled by Android which may eventually trap its users by automatically visiting malicious sites. A report by Zimperium (a cyber-security company) […]
Now you cannot test your IQ without getting your mobile compromised — The malicious new Android app has already infected more than 1 million users —This sinister app is available at Google Play Store and easily evades detection. The Brain Test Android app available at Google’s Play Store is not your regular IQ testing utility […]
Short Bytes: Google is synonymous with the Internet today, and the word in itself has become a verb. So what made Google popular and the brand that it is now? How Big is Google? Read the article to know more. Just after a few years of being a mere startup in 1997, Google literally burst […]