Its important to audit your Google privacy settings
2020-02-10
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains the importance to audit the privacy of your Google account in case you have not had a Google Privacy Checkup lately.Read More…
Security flaws in Apple’s web browser discovered
2020-01-30
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET discusses that the Apple’s browser, Safari’s anti-tracking tool contains certain flaws that it could apparently give access to users’ browsing habitsRead More…
Google disables Xiaomi smart home integration
2020-01-14
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET discusses the incident where an Xiaomi security camera owner reports receiving random images from strangers’ homes.Read More…
ESET becomes founding member of App Defense Alliance
2019-11-07
ESET, today announced that it has become a founding member of the App Defense Alliance to protect the Google Play Store. ESET will provide its award-winning detection capabilities and improved security for the Android ecosystem and will also spearhead investigations that make the Google Play Store safer.Read More…
Google lunches App Defense Alliance
2019-11-06
Google announced the lunch of App Defense Alliance that will enable the company to fight against the bad actors in the ecosystem, and the search engine giant entered into an partnership with ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium. Read More…
Google reveals iPhone security flaws that let websites hack phones
2019-09-03
Security researchers working in Google’s Project Zero team have said they have discovered several hacked websites which earlier used undisclosed security flaws to launch indiscriminate attacks on any iPhone that visited them. This attack, they say, could be the largest ever conducted against iPhone users. Accordingly, if someone visited anyRead More…
Google to remove data-stealing Chrome extensions from Oct 15
2019-07-24
Google is conducting a “root-and-branch review” of third-party developer access to user data. The company has now said its new policy for Minimum Permission and Updated User Data Policy will be enforced starting October 15, 2019 — in other words, Chrome will no longer support sketchy extensions that gather data on Read More…
Google removes seven spying apps from PlayStore
2019-07-18
Researchers from anti-virus company Avast found seven “stalker” apps from the Google PlayStore. All of the apps were subsequently removed by Google, but not before they had been installed a total of 130,000 times in aggregate. Two of the apps, Spy Tracker, and SMS Tracker, were installed over 50,000 timesRead More…