A series of ransomware attacks on the House of Representatives has led US Congress to ban members from using Yahoo Mail, according to a leaked email. Both Yahoo Mail and…
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Google: Android security is stronger than ever
The company scanned 6 billion apps per day in the last year as part of its effort to secure Android’s far-flung landscape. By Derek Walter Android security is often portrayed…
Tomorrow's Buildings: Help! My building has been hacked
In 2013, Google – one of the world’s pre-eminent tech companies – was hacked. It wasn’t its search engine that was attacked or its advertising platform or even its social…
Google found 760,935 compromised web sites in a year
There’s a lot of lazy and/or lousy webmasters out there who don’t know they’re p0wned. Google and university researchers say the tech giant found some 760,935 compromised websites across the…
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others publish new email security standard
The goal of the new SMTP Strict Transport Security mechanism is to ensure that encrypted email traffic is not vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. By Lucian Constantin Engineers from some of…
'Millions' of Android mobes vulnerable to new Stagefright exploit
Paper lays out how to bypass Google’s ASLR. Richard Chirgwin A group of Israeli researchers reckon they’ve cracked the challenge of crafting a reliable exploit for the Stagefright vulnerability that…