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Google is confronting an existential threat as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into an illegal monopoly. From a report: The drama began to unfold Monday in a Washington courtro…
A sophisticated phishing attack exploiting a loophole in Google’s OAuth infrastructure has surfaced, raising significant concerns about the security of Gmail users worldwide. Security researcher Nick Johnson (@nicksdjohnson) recently shared details of …
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from the Associated Press: Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing techno…
Apple has released emergency security updates for iOS/iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and visionOS that fix two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-31200, CVE-2025-31201) that have been exploited “in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted…
Google has announced the removal of 5.5 billion malicious advertisements and the suspension of over 700,000 offending advertiser accounts in 2024, according to its recently released Ads Safety Report. This accomplishment underscores Google’s ongoing co…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number from the previous year — in its latest crackdown on ad fraud. By leverag…
Class action argues US tech firm charged more for advertising on its preinstalled apps than it could in fair marketGoogle is being sued in the UK for up to £5bn in damages over allegations it shut out rivals in the internet search market and abused thi…
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome, prompting an urgent update as millions of users worldwide face potential threats of data theft and unauthorized access. The newly released Stable channel update—now available as ve…
Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US averageThe big American tech firms known as the “Silicon Six” have been accused of paying almost $278bn (£211bn) less corporate income tax in the…
Cybersecurity experts have unearthed an intricate cyber campaign that leverages deceptive websites posing as the Google Play Store to distribute Android malware. These websites, hosted on newly registered domains, create a façade of credible applicatio…