Aug 4, 2018 | Google, Radio Show, Security
Google announces its own security key for stronger logins Today at the Next conference, Google announced a new product called the Titan Security Key, currently available to Cloud customers and scheduled for general sale in the coming months. The key is used to...
Aug 4, 2018 | Business, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Ridesharing livestreams on Twitch raise privacy worries (update: Uber cuts access) When you step into a ridesharing car, you probably assume that whatever you do inside the vehicle won’t be recorded for posterity. But what if it turned out that you were not only...
Aug 4, 2018 | Radio Show, Security, Technology
How to Stop Your Smart TV From Tracking What You Watch Your smart TV is probably tracking everything that appears on the screen. While ad tracking is par for the course on the internet in 2018, smart TVs are particularly interesting. They don’t just track the shows...
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...