Jul 28, 2018 | Business, Google, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Gmail app developers have been reading your emails “This is a catastrophe,” my wife said—slightly horrified—as she swiped through page after page of apps on my phone. “Why do you even have most of these?” It’s a good question. It’s hard to believe that just a decade...
Jul 28, 2018 | Business, Google, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Google’s 89,000+ employees have had zero phishing incidents since switching to hardware security keys in 2017 Phishing attacks are deceptively successful against less experienced users, but even those that consider themselves reasonably technical can occasionally fall...
Jun 9, 2018 | Google, Radio Show, Security
No one is updating their Android devices, new data shows It’s typically good advice to patch early and often. What’s said less often is that most of the time it just isn’t happening. Duo Security has new data to back that up: The company released a study Wednesday...
May 12, 2018 | Android, Google, Internet, Phone, Radio Show, Security, Smart Phone
Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you [Updated] Tuesday’s I/O keynote included a segment on Google Assistant with a slew of newly announced features, but none was as startling as its rollout of Google Duplex: a...
May 5, 2018 | Google, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Google’s Best Security Feature Is used By Less Than 10% Of Users We all know that passwords are a terrible way to secure valuable services. The fact is that we’re all lazy, reuse passwords and perhaps rely on easy-to-remember logins that don’t...
Apr 28, 2018 | Google, Government, Radio Show, Security
EXCLUSIVE — Research: Google Search Manipulation Can Swing Nearly 80 Percent of Undecided Voters By inserting negative search suggestions under the name of a candidate, search engines like Google can shift the opinions of undecided voters by up to 43.4 percent,...