If you signed up for Pokémon Go with your Google account, you might not know it but the game now has “full account access.” That can be a major security risk. Adam Reeve, who first documented the issue on his Tumblr blog, said it appears to be a problem isolated to iPhones and iPads. It’s not thought to affect Android devices. In our testing...
Like many forms of encryption in use today, HTTPS crypto protections are on the brink of a collapse that could bring down the world as we know it. Hanging in the balance are most encrypted communications sent over the last several decades. On Thursday, Google unveiled an experiment designed to head off, or at least lessen, the catastrophe. In the coming months, Google servers...
If you’ve ever tested your internet speeds, you’ve probably used Ookla’s SpeedTest or maybe even Netflix’s new Fast.com. There’s also a good chance that you’ve simply Google searched “speedtest” to get you to one of those websites. In hopes to court users away from Ookla and Netflix, it looks like Google is building its own internet speed test tool right into search results. First uncovered...
Products from Symantec that are supposed to protect users have made them much more open to attack, according to Google. Researcher Tavis Ormandy has spotted numerous vulnerabilities in 25 Norton and Symantec products that are “as bad as it gets,” he says. “Just emailing a file to a victim or sending them a link to an exploit is enough to trigger it — the...
Using two-factor authentication, normally a code from an app or texted to you, is a crucial, but highly irritating, part of logging into all manner of things. From banking, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Yahoo to World of Warcraft, Steam and Xbox Live, two-factor authentication is seen as the way to make our insecure username and password system slightly safer. Most rely on typing in...
Global ad provider Google has come out in favor of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. The web giant’s general counsel Kent Walker noted in a blog post that the agreement “is not perfect” and decried the lack of transparency that has dogged the process, but argues that it “recognizes the Internet’s transformative impact on trade.” “The Internet has revolutionized how people can...
Apple’s iTunes App Store is home to over 1.5 million apps and Google Play hosts over 2 million, but the number of apps that actually get installed and used on consumers’ devices is still quite small. We already knew that people only interacted with a small handful of third-party apps on a regular basis, and now, according to a new study on mobile app usage, we...
Today, we’re announcing a variety of new protections that will help keep Gmail users even safer and promote email security best practices across the Internet as a whole. New tools and industry standards make email even safer On Safer Internet Day this year, we introduced a new visual element to Gmail that lets users know when they’ve received a message that wasn’t delivered using...
As the battle between iOS and Android rages on, it can be said that both operating systems are wonderful. True, Apple’s offering allows more timely updates, but Google’s mobile OS is available to many manufacturers for various device types. It is clear why Android is the most-used mobile operating system in the world — it allows affordable devices, while Apple simply doesn’t. Today, Google shocks...
In the grab bag of Google/Alphabet’s big projects for 2016 is Project Abacus. It’s basically the company’s plot to kill the password in cold blood, by replacing it with smartphone user authentication via an uncrackable collection of biometric readings. Abacus would lock or unlock devices and apps based on a cumulative “trust score” — as your phone continually monitors and recognizes your location patterns,...
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