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Google offers easy access to individual site permissions in Chrome Source: SlashGear Google is one of the most innovative companies of all time and it never fails to improve upon its previously existing programs, tools, and software. Apart from creating new products for its users, Google pays equal attention to improving the products that it already offers. The search engine company rolls out new updates and tweaks almost every week which is annoying at times but manageable as we know that it i...

Google has updated its Chrome web browser to fix several security flaws, including a zero-day that is known to be actively exploited by threat actors.

Google has announced new protections for Enhanced Safe Browsing users in Chrome. In 2020, the company launched Enhanced Safe Browsing, which users could turn on in their Chrome security settings, with the goal of substantially increasing safety on the web. Since the initial launch, Google says it has continuously worked behind the scenes to improve its real-time URL checks and apply machine learning models to warn on previously unknown attacks. As a result, Enhanced Safe Browsing users are succ...

Researchers at Google have identified a new Rowhammer exploit, dubbed Half-Double, which targets design flaws in some of the newer DRAM chips to alter their memory

Google is now automatically turning on two-factor authentication for some accounts Rounak JainMay 7, 2021, 13:02 IST Google has started enabling two-factor authentication by default.Google Google has started enabling two-factor authentication by default. This will be enabled only for the users who have enrolled in two-step verification and their accounts have been configured. Google has added that two-factor authentication will be made mandatory in the future.Google has taken another step to pr...

Browser-maker urges web developers to take action against vulnerability that continues to haunt the industry UPDATED Three years after the infamous Spectre vulnerability was discovered, hackers can still exploit the security flaw in order to force web browsers to leak information, Google’s security team warns. The problem has arisen despite extensive efforts by browser developers to harden their software against Spectre-style attacks. The results of the research was published on the Google Se...

26 January 2021, 9:35 am EST By North Korean hacker target security researchers  ( Pexels/Soumil Kumar ) A North Korean government hacking group has targeted numerous members of the cybersecurity community, thus engaging in vulnerability research. North Korean hackers target cybersecurity According to Google, the attacks have been identified by TAG or Google Threat A...

Shield in front. weapons drawn, moving in very slowly. >> all right. well come back to you in a moment. right now joining me on the phone, a witness to all of this. an employee of youtube. she doesnt want to us use her name so we will not. tell us what you saw. >> well, actually, i was on a video conference with someone who was in the building when it happened. we were all aware of noises suddenly of people running where she was and people screaming. and the person who was in the room in the vid...