Alphabet now owns the unabridged abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, a domain that was created in 1999, according to domain-registration directory Whois. Alphabet confirmed the domain purchase. Google had announced in August 2015 that it was reorganising into a new holding company called Alphabet. At that time it had unveiled its flagship domain called abc.xyz. However, Microsoft had sensed an opportunity to troll Google and bought the domain abc.wtf which lead the readers to its own Bing search engine(abc....

These warning banners, which are already available in Gmail and Google Drive, would warn users against potential phishing and malware messages coming from users with personal Google Accounts. “In Gmail, warning banners are displayed when responding to emails sent from outside of your organisation. Now, Android warning banners are also displayed as you add new external recipients. Admins can turn these specific warning labels on or off for their organisation,” Google announced in a blog post on Thursday....

In September last year, the FAS found Google guilty in breach of a law on “protecting competition” after Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex NV filed a complaint against the search giant. It asked anti-trust authorities to stop Android handsets from being automatically pre-loaded with Google’s own apps and services. Google also didn’t allow third-party services, such as Yandex’s search, to be preinstalled. Google has two months to pay the fine, said the FAS....

Deep learning is a machine learning technique that has become the foundation of the several services that Google already provides (this would include everything from speech recognition to automatically sorting your photo collection). The course is available to see on educational site Udacity, and could actually take longer than three months, depending on how quick you are to learn it. The course details state that if a student or any interested other person is able to invest 6 hours a week into the course, then they will be able to complete it in a period of months....

“For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. “But most of the two billion Mastercard holders aren’t aware of this behind-the-scenes tracking. That’s because the companies never told the public about the arrangement,” Bloomberg mentions in its report....

For those unaware, VRP was launched in January 2010 to reward the contributions of security researchers who invest their time and effort in finding and reporting bugs to Google to help keep the Internet safe and secure. Over the past 10 years, 11,055 bugs have been reported in the company’s various platforms and resolved via VRP. Further, a total number of 2,022 researchers from 84 different countries worldwide have been rewarded to the tune of $29,357,516 among them....

E-mail, instant messaging, social networks. Advancements in these fields’ technology and services have made the world a global village, it is very easy to share things like web pages to someone half way around the world. But for sharing the same things with people in the same room or at a hand distance, things seem to be very complicated. That is the real motive, or the justification, behind Google’s new Chrome extension simply named as ‘Tone’....

The new preview includes a number of new features, such as adding support for USB Audio to the Hardware Abstraction Layer for the Intel Edison and Raspberry Pi 3. There is also support for the Intel Joule platform in this new preview, which according to Google, offers the most computing power in its IoT line-up to date. It has also hardened the Bluetooth stack as well as improved the process of taking real work inputs and outputs and abstracting those into Android intents to function within the software....

The Google’s news trust based system or ‘Trust API’ is a part of larger ‘Project Abacus’ which Google engineers have been working on and was recently unveiled at I/O 2016. Google is said to be tying up with large banks to test out the Trust API. The system is designed to be used on smartphones, and works by constantly checking for a number of personal indicators which can grant access to accounts or the phone itself....

However, if you don’t have a built-in call recorder on your Android smartphone, you can easily download one of the thousand call recorders available on the Google PlayStore. Sadly the aforementioned solution will no longer work starting 11th May 2022. Let’s get into details. To further enhance users’ safety and privacy, Google is implementing new Play Store policies to prevent third-party apps from using the Accessibility API. This API makes the process of remote call audio recording work properly....

In his presentation Hypponen said how Government is creating Malware programs to spy over other Nations, talking more about the Notorious Malware Stuxnet which was deployed at Iran’s Nuclear Facilities by United states and Israel to infect and destroy the Iranian Nuclear ambitions, and the “Flame Malware” which spread using a false windows update system to steal data, both of which he described as a perfect toolkit for cyber-espionage.Its not only that The United States have been involved, but China and many others countries are also involved in this so called Malware Authoring....

In the early hours of Thursday, the game developer Polyphony Digital had pushed out an update to address a bug that was preventing Gran Turismo 7 from starting properly on PS5 and PS4. However, it turned out to be a botched update and the game was taken offline for emergency maintenance. While the server maintenance was originally scheduled to take place on March 17th, with two hours of downtime between 6 am and 8 am UTC, it extended to almost 30 hours forcing the fans of the game to resort to social media to express their anger and disappointment....

As a result, many gamers out of curiosity have already started to search the app outside official app stores. Crooks are using this opportunity to exploit the popularity of the game by spreading a malicious version of the Pokemon GO app that could infect Android mobile devices and install a backdoor to gain complete control over the victim’s smartphone. The official Pokemon GO app was first launched in Australia and New Zealand on July 4th, and later on July 6th in the U....

In a newly discovered cyberattack campaign, researchers have found that hackers are reportedly hijacking router’s DNS settings so that web browsers display fake WHO COVID-19 alerts and redirect Windows computer users to malicious content. According to BleepingComputer, victims of the campaign witnessed their web browsers opening automatically and displaying a message that instructs them to download a “Emergency – COVID-19 Informator” or “COVID-19 Inform App” that was allegedly from the WHO....

According to a blog post published by the Ronin Network’s official Substack, the validator nodes of Sky Mavis, the publishers of the popular Axie Infinity game, and the Axie DAO were compromised. An attacker “used hacked private keys in order to forge fake withdrawals” from the Ronin bridge in two transactions (1 and 2). While the hack occurred on March 23rd, it was discovered only on Tuesday morning after a user reported being unable to withdraw 5,000 ETH from the bridge network....

To see what would be the outcome of hacking a medical grade human simulation, a group of undergraduates recently at the university spent a few hours to find the same. And the results were as one would expect. Meet iStan, the “most advanced wireless patient simulator on the market” with internal robotics that mimic human cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological systems,” according to its manufacturer, https://www.caehealthcare.com/eng/patient-simulators/istan#block_3429. “When iStan bleeds, his blood pressure, heart rate and other clinical signs change automatically, and he responds to treatment with minimal input from an instructor....

In a series of tweets from the company’s compromised Twitter account, the unknown hackers tweeted internal emails and also released torrent with 400GB of internal files, software source code and sensitive files such as a list of customers and the money they paid for the spying software. One particular tweet make an email from Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti public. In the email, Vincenzetti mocks a competitor for being hacked....

The popular Dutch brewing company on Thursday launched its first, brand new, virtual beer, Heineken Silver, at a metaverse launch event within the immersive digital platform, Decentraland. Promoting the product as a legitimate virtual product, the company invited real journalists to the launch event of the fake beer and treated everyone to pixilated lobster and caviar. There was also a virtual DJ and dancers dressed in Heineken gear. Describing the product launch as “an ironic joke” for themselves as well as other brands, the virtual beer, Heineken Silver is brewed with 100% purified pixels, tripled-filtered through firewalls, and uploaded with 5 million megabits per second....

Ghost Security Group has an objective that is in line with that of Anonymous; to reduce the threat of ISIS as much as it possibly can by using the resources at its disposal. The hacktivist group was previously looking for intelligence contractors that could efficiently transfer impending terrorist attacks reports to the authorities, who could then take charge and reduce the threat as much as possible. They were able to get in contact with terrorist analyst Michael S....