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Russia fines Google for spreading ‘unreliable’ info defaming its army

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog, has fined Google 68 million rubles (roughly $1.2 million) for helping spread what it called “unreliable” information on the war in Ukraine and the failure to remove it from its platforms. […]

12 Jun

New Vytal Chrome extension hides location info that your VPN can’t

A new Google Chrome browser extension called Vytal prevents webpages from using programming APIs to find your geographic location leaked, even when using a VPN. […]

02 Jun

Top 10 Android banking trojans target apps with 1 billion downloads

The ten most prolific Android mobile banking trojans target 639 financial applications that collectively have over one billion downloads on the Google Play Store. […]

30 May

Google quietly bans deepfake training projects on Colab

Google has quietly banned deepfake projects on its Colaboratory (Colab) service, putting an end to the large-scale utilization of the platform’s resources for this purpose. […]

22 May

Google: Predator spyware infected Android devices using zero-days

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that state-backed threat actors used five zero-day vulnerabilities to install Predator spyware developed by commercial surveillance developer Cytrox. […]

08 May

Google Play now blocks paid app downloads, updates in Russia

Google is now blocking Russian users and developers from downloading or updating paid applications from the Google Play Store due to sanctions, starting Thursday. […]

01 May

Google fights doxxing with updated personal info removal policy

Google has expanded its policies to allow doxxing victims to remove more of their personally identifiable information (PII) from search engine results starting earlier this week. […]

29 Apr

Google gives 50% bonus to Android 13 Beta bug bounty hunters

Google has announced that all security researchers who report Android 13 Beta vulnerabilities through its Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) will get a 50% bonus on top of the standard reward until May 26th, 2022. […]

14 Apr

Google Chrome emergency update fixes zero-day used in attacks

Google has released Chrome 100.0.4896.127 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, to fix a high-severity zero-day vulnerability actively used by threat actors in attacks. […]

07 Apr

Google boosts Android security with new set of dev policy changes

Google has announced several key policy changes for Android application developers that will increase the security of users, Google Play, and the apps offered by the service. […]

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