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Software manufacturers shift version updates dates and releases of new programs because of the coronavirus. For example, Chrome will jump from 81 to 83, and Microsoft Edge will postpone the update. Last week, it became known that Google cannot support the planned pace of Chrome browser releases. The fact is …

This week, Google reported about its success in adopting the HTTPS standard: 80% of applications encrypt traffic by default. So, in the official blog of the IT giant, appeared a message that currently 4 out of 5 applications (80%) available through the Google Play Store encrypt traffic by default and …

According to Reuters, the European Commission and European antitrust authorities are conducting a “preliminary investigation” regarding Google data collection methods. Therefore, the European antitrust monitors again tackle the search giant. “Competition enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are now looking into how dominant tech companies use and monetise data. …

Google has revealed statistics about how often it has to warn users about “governmental attacks.” Over the past three months, Google has sent out over 12,000 such alerts. Most alerts were sent to users from the United States, South Korea, Pakistan, and Vietnam. “Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) works to …

This week it became known that due to the use of third-party SDKs, the data of Twitter and Facebook users leaked to the side (of course, without any knowledge). SDK (software development kit) is a set of developmental tools that allows software specialists to create applications for a specific software …

Amnesty International, a nonprofit organization, has published a report inviting tech giants Facebook and Google to change their business model and stop relying on user data. According to the report, the constant monitoring of billions of people around the world by companies threatens human rights and freedom of speech. Google …

Google increase the amount of rewards for the bug bounty program and now it will pay up to $ 1.5 million for hacking Android and Titan M. Now, researchers who have found vulnerabilities in Android and the Titan M security module (used in Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 4) can …

Kryptowire company specialists conducted automatic analysis of applications that were preinstalled on Android-smartphones, and discovered more than 150 vulnerabilities. Among other permissions, preinstalled programs allow remote change of settings, side code execution and unpermitted audio recording. “In research funded by the US Department of Homeland Security, the Kryptowire found apps …

SRLabs experts described a number of vulnerabilities in Alexa and Google Home, which Google developers have not been able to fix for several months. Attackers can use voice assistants to eavesdrop on conversations or with a trick received from users confidential information. In essence, threat is possessing malware that develop …

Grant Hernandez, Ph.D. in science at the University of Florida’s Cybersecurity Institute, has published a PoC exploit for Android’s zero-day vulnerability that allows gaining superuser rights and take control of the device. At the beginning of October 2019, experts at the Google Project Zero team reported an unpleasant bug in …