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Google Maps has become a daily driver of many people who commute. Other than commuting, the Maps’ Timeline feature has also helped cops in solving many criminal cases and tracking criminals. In a rare incident, Google Maps has spotted the sunken car of a man who went missing on November 7, 1997 — 22 years […]
Google has released the latest version of its Chrome browser — Chrome 77 — which has brought in several new features for Android users. Among the various features, the primary one is the ability to share web pages with other devices. The “Send To Your Devices” feature The new “Send To Your Devices” feature allows […]
Though many think that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and security do not go hand in hand, they are a lot closer than many think. Whether this is the effect of website security on an existing SEO campaign or the campaign helping to improve the overall security of the website, there are a number of ways […]
The Apple Arcade Competitor Google Play Pass is coming soon. Google made the announcement via a tweet at 3:15 AM IST on September 10, 2019. After yesterday’s event from Apple, Google is ready to take up the big stage next. At yesterday’s event, the presenter announced the launch date for the Apple Arcade gaming subscription, […]
When Google revealed via its findings that Apple’s ecosystem isn’t as safe as we think it to be, it came as a shock to Apple. Responding to Google, Apple has defended its security system, clarifying that Apple ain’t here to take anyone’s shit. Apple’s response to Google Apple, via an official press release, has hinted […]
Google and Facebook are ultra-successful giants in their respective fields. Facebook has over 2.3 billion monthly active users and Google has around 2 billion. The search engine helps millions of people connect with businesses and interact with them. Facebook helps people around the world connect by letting them make profiles, post pictures, and videos, create […]
Today, security researchers at Google shattered the common belief that iPhones are non-susceptible to hacking. The researchers have revealed that a number of websites were hacking iPhones secretly for the past two years using indiscriminate watering hole attacks. Discussing in a lengthy blog post, Google Project Zero’s Ian Beer says that the attack involved no […]
CamScanner app has been deleted by Google from Play Store. The IT security researchers at Kaspersky have discovered a dangerous malware in the CamScanner app, a tremendously popular application for Android devices used by more than 100 million users around the world. The purpose of the CamScanner app is to turn a smartphone into a […]
Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Intel, Alibaba, Arm, IBM, Red Hat, Baidu, etc., have come together to form the Confidential Computing Consortium. Established by the Linux Foundation, the aim behind this consortium is to improve security for data in use. The organization aims to bring together developers, vendors, and other experts to promote the […]
Google has announced that it’s shutting down its 2-year-old YouTube messaging service on September 18. The latest move is yet another example of how a company as big as Google is struggling to mark its presence in the world of social media, which is mostly owned by Facebook and its adopted kids. I guess Twitter […]
Android Studio is a useful tool in Android app development but it’s not particularly fast and faces issues in working with low-end devices. To combat this problem, Google introduced ‘Project Marble’ back in November 2018. Now all the fixes and improvements under the project have been integrated into Android Studio 3.5 — which was just […]
Google’s new Password checkup extension checks for leaked credentials and informs whether they have been leaked before in a data breach. In 2019, more than 20 million unique passwords among other credentials were leaked and available online for sale. This fact represents only one year since the advent of the internet and over the years […]
Google has released a new set of eye-opening numbers that reveal the bad password practices people still use online. Earlier this year, Google released Password Checkup extension for Chrome that scans users passwords and tells them whether it’s safe or not. The company has now come up with the first round of stats and says […]
Update — With this month’s patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft has finally addressed this vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1162, by correcting how the Windows operating system handles calls to Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC). A Google security researcher has just disclosed details of a 20-year-old unpatched high-severity vulnerability affecting all versions of Microsoft Windows, back from Windows […]
In today’s time, the worst nightmare of a website is not showing up in Google Search results. Google is mostly the internet for many people, in fact, the whole SEO industry we have right now is built around Google’s search engine. The sad dream became true for some websites earlier this year when a nasty […]
Given the rising cybersecurity concerns, robust passwords are a great way to safeguard the data in your online accounts. But some people don’t hesitate to choose passwords like 123456, which defeats the whole point of it. Adding to the pain is the fact that now we have got so many passwords to remember. So, tech […]
Following various beta releases, Android Q’s latest beta release called the Android Q Beta 6 has revealed the new operating system’s Easter egg for us. And this one’s a new thing we would love to play around with. As posted by a user on Reddit, the Android Q easter egg has a different and new […]
A speculative execution vulnerability has been discovered by BitDefender researchers in systems running Intel modems built since 2012. SWAPGS vulnerability allows a malware-ridden program to access the computer’s kernel memory. This, in turn, allows the hacker to read sensitive data such as passwords, chat messages, e-mails, payment information and more. At the BlackHat conference 2019, […]
According to a report by Bleeping Computer, several misconfigured Jira servers have been found leaking information about internal projects and users belonging to Google, NASA, Yahoo, etc. The popular project management solution Jira, developed by Atlassian for agile teams, is used by Fortune 500 companies to track the progress of various projects and issues. However, […]
Google has stepped up its measures to protect Android devices from malware-ridden apps with its in-built Play Protect malware scanner. However, it seems that Google’s malware scanner isn’t as effective as third-party antivirus apps. As concluded by a report by AV-Comparatives, an Austria-based independent organization that tests antivirus software, Google Play Protect performed the worst […]
Since Google first tweeted about what the Pixel 4 will look like in real life, it was evident that Google will not stop just there. In fact, it’s a lesson that the tech giant learned from the gigantic Google Pixel 3 leak chaos: ‘leaking’ your own product is probably a good idea. Google Pixel 4 Face […]