Tag: Google

Google Gemini AI accessed three company systems during a cybersecurity evaluation after finding credentials online, raising questions about AI security safeguards.

Google has introduced operating system wide Encrypted Client Hello support, Local Network Protection, Certificate Transparency, and enhanced 2G security in Android 17 to improve user privacy and network protection.

Google has acquired a large dataset from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for $10 million through a bankruptcy auction to support AI development, with customer and personally identifiable information excluded from the purchase.

Google has inaugurated its local office in Pakistan as the company highlights investments in people, infrastructure, hardware exports, and local businesses.

Google has launched Gemini Spark in Pakistan for AI Ultra subscribers, offering autonomous task automation across Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Calendar.

Google has introduced an optional selfie video verification feature that enables users to recover locked accounts using facial verification while enhancing identity protection and account security.

This week's cybersecurity roundup covers the disruption of the NetNut proxy botnet, AI driven attack techniques, browser based ransomware, phishing campaigns, malware activity, and critical vulnerabilities affecting organizations worldwide.

Kaspersky has uncovered a large scale SEO poisoning campaign that uses fake software websites and ScreenConnect to deploy AsyncRAT, enabling remote access, data theft, and persistent compromise of Windows systems.

Microsoft has accelerated its quantum safe security roadmap, aiming to transition critical products and services to post quantum cryptography by 2029 amid growing advances in quantum computing.

Google forms internal Strike Team to improve Gemini AI coding capabilities as competition with Anthropic and OpenAI intensifies in software development tools.

Google has accelerated its quantum computing timeline to 2029, urging faster adoption of post quantum cryptography as threats to current encryption standards grow.

Google is rolling out an accessibility API restriction in Android 17 Beta 2 under Android Advanced Protection Mode, blocking non‑accessibility apps from using powerful privileges to curb malware abuse while introducing a refined contacts picker for granular data access control.