Google wins Facial Recognition lawsuit targeted at Google Photos
A lawsuit filed by a group of citizens against Google for using Facial Recognition software on the content stored on Google Photos platform was dismissed by the US District Judge Edmond Chang in Chicago last month. The reason- due to lack of concrete evidence that the Alphabet’s subsidiary was playing with its user data by […]
Information Security Digital Privacy law tops EU Google’s Search List 2018
From May 25th, 2018 European Union announced the world’s toughest rules for companies offering online services to the populace of the region. And the internet juggernaut Google has claimed that its search engine was fueled with queries related to the digital privacy law in the whole of 2018. As per the most search stats released […]
Facebook shares user data with Google, Apple, and Microsoft without consent
Facebook(FB), well known as the world’s number one social networking website has been marred by controversies in this whole year. And the latest happens to be a media report from New York Times (NYT) which says that the Mark Zuckerberg led company has been sharing its user data with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple Inc and […]
Most Google trended Cybersecurity keywords in 2018
As Donald Trump and the word ‘Idiot’ are currently trending the most on Google search engine, Cybersecurity Insiders brings to you the most searched keywords related to Cybersecurity which trended on Google in 2018. Cyptojacking- The word started to lead the trending list from May 2018 and is still said to be buzzing on the […]
Microsoft, PayPal, and Google top the table of Phishing Email trends
Comodo Cybersecurity, a company which offers threat intelligence and cyber defense services have announced that one in 100 emails received by companies is of Phishing genre. And the most frequently targeted brands are Microsoft(19%) , PayPal(17%) and Google(9.7%). According to the latest Global Threat Report from Comodo Cybersecurity, the three phishing subject-lines ranking at the […]
Google + bug exposes 52.5 million Customer Information
Alphabet Inc. a subsidiary Google has decided to shut down its G+ services from April’19 as a result of a data breach which exposed info of more than 52.5 million of its customers. The firm claims that none of the leaked info which includes name, email, gender, and age was used by hackers or apps […]
Google Cloud Security Command Center available in the Beta version
Google Cloud Customers are hereby informed that the Internet Juggernaut’s Cloud Security Command Center (Cloud SCC) which provides deeper insights to enterprises on the health of data security across multiple Google Cloud platforms is now available to them as a beta version. Thus, with the service availability, the cloud services giant has provided an organizational […]
Cyber Security Website Captchas are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks
This news is intended to those website users who still use regular text-based security ‘Captchas’ to keep their web portals from being raided by automated internet software. Researchers at the Lancaster University School of Computing and Communications have found out that the regular security captchas used by certain websites are vulnerable to cyber attacks as […]
Google n FBI discover a major ad-fraud campaign infecting 2 million devices
Google in association with the US law enforcement agency FBI has busted a major AD fraud campaign which is reported to have hacked over 2 million devices so far. It’s said that the scam led the hackers to over $36 million earnings from advertising. Cybersecurity Insiders has learned that the search giant indicted charges against […]
Google might cancel the build of ‘Censored’ search engine for China named Project Dragonfly
Google is said to cancel the build of a separate and censored Chinese search engine named ‘Project Dragonfly’ due to strong protests from its own employees. It’s said that more than 273 managers and engineers have penned a letter to Alphabet Inc the parent company of Google to stop the build of a separate search […]
