Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2018
Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users, the news was revealed by Bloomberg. New problems for Google, experts discovered a secret agreement of the tech giant with Mastercard to track user purchases offline. Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users. The embarrassing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2018
According to the AP, many Google services on both Android and iPhone store records of user location even if the users have disabled the “Location History”. According to a recent investigation conducted by the Associated Press, many Google services on both Android and iPhone devices store records of user location data, and the bad news […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2018
Google announced that has implemented an alerting system for G Suite admins when users have been targeted by state-sponsored attacks. Google announced it will alert G Suite admins when state-sponsored hackers will target their users. The new feature will be available in the G Suite Admin console very soon, it confirms the effort spent by the tech […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2018
Google recently removed 145 applications from the official Google Play store because they were found to carry malicious Windows executables inside. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks revealed that Google removed more than 145 apps from the Play store because they were carrying a Windows malware, The apps were uploaded to the Google Play store between October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2018
Google has updated the Play Store Developer Policy page to ban mobile mining apps that mine cryptocurrencies using the computational resources of the devices. Due to the surge in cryptocurrency prices, many legitimate websites and mobile apps are increasingly using cryptocurrency miners. Following Apple’s decision of banning cryptocurrency mining apps announced in June, also Google has updated the Play […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
Google awarded the 18-year-old student Ezequiel Pereira a total of $36,337 for the discovery of a critical remote code execution vulnerability that affected the Google App Engine. The Google App Engine is a framework that allows Google users to develop and host web applications on a fully managed serverless platform. In February, Pereira gained access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2018
Google announced that mitigations for devices with Intel processors that are affected by the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities will be available for latest stable channel update for Google’s Chrome OS operating system. The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could be exploited by attackers to bypass memory isolation mechanisms and access target sensitive data. The Meltdown attack could allow attackers to read […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2018
Google has awarded a record $112,500 to a security researcher for reporting an exploit chain that could be used to hack Pixel smartphones. Last week the Google disclosed the technical details of the exploit chain that was devised in August 2017 by the Guang Gong from Alpha Team at Qihoo 360 Technology. The exploit chain triggers two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2017
The OpenSSL Project released the OpenSSL 1.0.2n version that addresses two vulnerabilities discovered by the Google researcher David Benjamin. Benjamin discovered the vulnerabilities using the OSS-Fuzz fuzzing service. The first “moderate severity” issue, tracked as CVE-2017-3737, is related to an “error state” mechanism implemented since OpenSSL 1.0.2b. “OpenSSL 1.0.2 (starting from version 1.0.2b) introduced an “error state” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2017
Google has expanded enforcement of Google’s Unwanted Software Policy waring Android developers to explicitly declare data collection behaviors. A few days ago, Google was caught collecting users’ location data even when location services were disabled, many privacy experts questioned the behavior of the tech giant. Google promptly admitted the practice and suspended it. Now Google made another move to […]
