Tag: Security

Google Is Shutting Down The Google Earth API
Google announced that it will stop offering its Google Earth API a year from now. The company says it's going away for security reasons, and in accordance with its policy, will off...
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Cisco To Acquire Security Company Neohapsis
Cisco announced that it intends to acquire Neohapsis, a company which offers network, cloud, and app security, as well as IT risk and compliance services. Cisco says it will us...
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Google For Work Gets Security Upgrade
Facebook may be preparing to grab some of the workplace market share, but other, m...
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Home Depot Hack Also Compromised 53 Million Email Addresses
A large and lengthy data breach put some 56 million credit cards at risk, Home...
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The Messaging Apps You Use the Most Are Woefully Insecure
It's likely that every single day, you use a messaging app to communicate with friends and family. It's also likely that the messaging app you're using is unequipped to protect you...
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Google Trusted Stores Program Gets HTTPS Support [Report]
As reported earlier this week, it was discovered that the Google Trusted Store...
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Googler Arrested in Nude Photo Extortion Scheme
The FBI has arrested an "Internal Technology Resident" at Google after he allegedly obtained nude photos of a Texas college student by way of a Gmail scam and subsequently used the...
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HTTPS Sites Not Accepted As Google Trusted Stores?
Well, here's another one of those "Come on, Google" moments. You know how Google has been pushing sites to go HTT...
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Google Launches Security Key For USB-Based Security
Google announced a new way to enhance its 2-step verification security called Security Key, which works through a USB device....
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eBay Restricts Shopping From Old Web Browsers
eBay announced that in an effort to make shopping more secure, it will restrict site access through older versions of web browsers. This is largely in response to the...
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Google Discovers ‘POODLE’ Vulnerability In SSL 3.0
Google announced that it has discovered a vulnerability (referred to as POODLE) in SSL version 3.0, the details of which can be found...
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Dropbox: We Were Not Hacked
According to reports, hundreds of Dropbox usernames and passwords were leaked online as a preview to a larger alleged leak of 7 million accounts. As The Next Web...
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Snapchat Photo Hack, If Real, Wasn’t Snapchat’s Fault (Says Snapchat)
Photos taken and transmitted via Snapchat may or may not have leaked on Thursday, but if they did, Snapchat assures you that its servers were never breached and it's the fault of u...
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JPMorgan Chase Cyberattack Big In Volume, But Not Sensitive Data, According To Bank
JPMorgan Chase, the largest banking institution in the U.S., revealed that 76 million household accounts and 7 million small business accounts were compromised in a recent cyberatt...
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‘Shellshock’ Bash Bug Said To Be Worse Than Heartbleed
It feels like major security vulnerabilities are more common than ever, and there's a big one freaking out the blogosphere being referred to as "shellshock". It was discovered by a...
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