Tag Archives: Google

Cybersquatter frenzy as Google becomes Alphabet without owning alphabet.com

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Google’s big announcement this Monday that it was creating a new holding company called Alphabet took the business world by surprise, and cybersquatters have moved in to exploit confusion about the Alphabet domain name and website.

Chet Chat Podcast 211 – A virus on a *Mac*? Is NOTHING sacred?

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Episode 211 of our weekly security podcast – a quarter-hour of news with attitude. Enjoy. Update Tuesday, Firefox’s zero-day, more Android bugginess, a firmware virus for your Mac …and a tax fraudster busted.

Adobe and PageFair claim ad blockers will cost business $22 billion in 2015

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The rapid growth of people using ad blockers is costly to publishers and advertisers – and the trend looks to only grow worse for website owners as ad blocking comes to mobile devices.

Another Android hole: “OCtoRuTA” – One (Java) Class to Rule Them All

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Yet another large-scale vulnerability has been revealed in Android. This one lets an otherwise innocent-looking app go rogue, and enjoy privileges normally limited to the trusted parts of Android.

Google, Facebook and Twitter join forces to combat child abuse imagery

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Google, Facebook and Twitter have joined forces with the Internet Watch Foundation in a bid to remove potentially millions of child sexual abuse imagery from the web.

Google profits from YouTube RAT infestation, says consumer group

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YouTube has thousands of videos on stealing images and spreading malware, along with examples of stolen streams from “slave” devices.