Scams and flaws: Why we get duped
What are the emotional triggers and errors in judgment that make you fall for an online scam? The post Scams and flaws: Why we get duped appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
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Week in security with Tony Anscombe
GreyEnergy: ESET research reveals a successor to the infamous BlackEnergy APT group targeting critical infrastructure, quite possibly in preparation for damaging attacks The post Week in security with Tony Anscombe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Tumblr patches bug that could have exposed user data
The microblogging platform is assuring its users that has found no evidence that any data was actually stolen The post Tumblr patches bug that could have exposed user data appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Tackling ads abuse in apps and SDKs
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP, Head of Security & Privacy – Android & Play Providing users with safe and secure experiences, while helping developers build and grow quality app businesses, is our top priority at Google Play. And we’re constantly working to improve our protections. Google Play has been working to minimize app install attribution … Devamını oku
ASPIRE to keep protecting billions of Android users
Posted by Billy Lau and René Mayrhofer, Android Security & Privacy Team Customization is one of Android’s greatest strengths. Android’s open source nature has enabled thousands of device types that cover a variety of use cases. In addition to adding features to the Android Open Source Project, researchers, developers, service providers, and device and chipset … Devamını oku
Announcing the Google Security and Privacy Research Awards
Posted by Elie Bursztein and Oxana Comanescu, Google Security and Privacy Group We believe that cutting-edge research plays a key role in advancing the security and privacy of users across the Internet. While we do significant in-house research and engineering to protect users’ data, we maintain strong ties with academic institutions worldwide. We provide seed … Devamını oku
Industry collaboration leads to takedown of the “3ve” ad fraud operation
Posted by Per Bjorke, Product Manager, Ad Traffic Quality For years, Google has been waging a comprehensive, global fight against invalid traffic through a combination of technology, policy, and operations teams to protect advertisers and publishers and increase transparency throughout the advertising industry. Last year, we identified one of the most complex and sophisticated ad … Devamını oku
Combating Potentially Harmful Applications with Machine Learning at Google: Datasets and Models
Posted by Mo Yu, Damien Octeau, and Chuangang Ren, Android Security & Privacy Team [Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog] In a previous blog post, we talked about using machine learning to combat Potentially Harmful Applications (PHAs). This blog post covers how Google uses machine learning techniques to detect and classify PHAs. We’ll discuss the … Devamını oku
Introducing the Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report
Posted by Jason Woloz and Eugene Liderman, Android Security & Privacy Team Update: We identified a bug that affected how we calculated data from Q3 2018 in the Transparency Report. This bug created inconsistencies between the data in the report and this blog post. The data points in this blog post have been corrected. As … Devamını oku
A New Chapter for OSS-Fuzz
Posted by Matt Ruhstaller, TPM and Oliver Chang, Software Engineer, Google Security Team Open Source Software (OSS) is extremely important to Google, and we rely on OSS in a variety of customer-facing and internal projects. We also understand the difficulty and importance of securing the open source ecosystem, and are continuously looking for ways to … Devamını oku