Threat actor impersonates Google via fake ad for Authenticator
Only trust official sources they say, but what happens when a Google vetted ad is for a Google product?
Read moreCrooks Bypassed Google’s Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Access 3rd-Party Services
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:31:54 +0000
Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent email verification needed to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder to third-party services that allow logins through Google’s “Sign in with Google” feature.
Read moreGoogle admits it can’t quite quit third-party cookies
Google has taken a new turn in the approach to eliminating third-party cookies. This time it’s back to the Privacy Sandbox
Read moreGoogle will start deleting location history
Google has announced it will delete Location History (Timeline) data and store new data locally, starting December 2024.
Read moreYour vacation, reservations, and online dates, now chosen by AI: Lock and Code S05E11
This week on Lock and Code, we talk about what people lose when they let AI services make choices for dinners, reservations, and even dating.
Read moreGoogle patches critical vulnerability for Androids with Qualcomm chips
Google has issued patches for 28 security vulnerabilities, including a critical patch for Androids with Qualcomm chips.
Read moreDownload: UEM vendor comparison chart 2024
Credit to Author: ,| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0800
Unified endpoint management (UEM) is a strategic IT approach that consolidates how enterprises secure and manage an array of deployed devices including phones, tablets, PCs, and even IoT devices.
As remote and hybrid work models have become the norm over the past two years, “mobility management” has come to mean management of not just mobile devices, but all devices used by mobile employees wherever they are. UEM tools incorporate existing enterprise mobility management (EMM) technologies, such as mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), with tools used to manage desktop PCs and laptops.
What a future without browser cookies looks like
Most online users have experienced it. You do an online search for healthcare purposes, travel information, or something to buy and soon you’re being bombarded with emails and targeted online ads for everything related to your search. That’s because browser cookies were tracking you as you performed your searches; they identified you and your activity.
Over the past few years, the online advertising industry has been undergoing a sea change as regulators restricted how cookies can be used and browser providers moved away from their use in response to consumer outcries over privacy.
“They often feel surveilled; some even find it ‘creepy’ that a website can show them ads related to their behavior elsewhere,” according to a recent study by the HEC Paris Business School.
In conversation: Bruce Schneier on AI-powered mass spying
Senior Privacy Advocate David Ruiz speaks with Bruce Schneier about artificial intelligence, surveillance, and an era of “mass spying.”
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