Jaikumar Vijayan

A Google security researcher this week offered the first details on an effort by a 50-member volunteer team at the company last year to help patch more than 2,600 open-source projects against a critical vulnerability in a widely used Java process. A consultant at FoxGlove Security first drew attention to the so-called Java deserialization issue […]

Google, like rival Apple, has put considerable effort into ensuring that its official mobile application store is malware free, but that hasn’t totally stopped malware-laden apps from being uploaded to its store anyway. The latest case in point is the discovery of 132 Android apps in Google Play, with a bug in them. Security firm […]

Consumers in multiple cities around the country will soon have another option for getting broadcast and cable TV service. Google this week launched YouTube TV, a $35-per-month subscription service that will let users stream live content from more than 40 major cable and broadcast networks to their computers, mobile devices and TVs. Among the networks […]

Google’s efforts to make Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging available more widely on Android devices took another major step forward last week with more than two dozen carriers and mobile device makers agreeing to make the company’s Android Messages the standard messaging app for their subscribers. The announcement follows Google’s recent news about similar partnerships […]

Google has released an experimental version of its E2EMail end-to-end encryption technology to the open-source community. The tool is intended to give users a way to more easily encrypt their email beyond what Google already offers by default with Gmail. In a blog post, Google engineers KB Sriram, Eduardo Vela Nava and Stephan Somogyi described […]

Google parent Alphabet’s Waymo self-driving car subsidiary has sued ride-sharing giant Uber for allegedly stealing its trade secrets and using the information to build competing technology. In a 28-page lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco this week, Waymo accused Uber of trade secret misappropriation, patent infringement, and unfair competition pertaining to LIDAR, a […]

Security researchers at Google and the CWI Institute in Amsterdam have found a way to crack the Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) cryptographic function. The two organizations Thursday announced what they described as the first practical collision attack against SHA-1. In other words, what they have done is find a way to mathematically generate identical SHA-1 […]

Google Cloud customers that require extra computational power for running machine learning and other processor intensive apps can now spin up virtual machines based on Nvidia graphical processing units (GPUs). Starting this week, Google cloud customers in certain regions in the United States, Asia and Europe will be able to attach as many as eight […]

Google will allow the Media Rating Council to audit the ad viewing metrics and measurements that it reports to advertisers on its YouTube video sharing site. The goal is to reassure advertisers that the viewing statistics and other data Google provides them—directly or through third-party firms—about how their ads fare on YouTube are accurate and […]

Just weeks after Google parent Alphabet disclosed it had killed off a project to deliver Internet connectivity via high-altitude drones, the company is touting the success of another initiative to achieve the same goal using high-flying balloon’s instead. In a blog this week, Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet’s X lab, said the company’s Project Loon is now one […]

Google’s efforts to drive broad acceptance of the Rich Communication Services cross-operator mobile messaging technology across the Android ecosystem got a boost this week. The company on Feb. 16 announced a partnership with Norwegian telecommunication giant Telenor Group that will bring RCS messaging to some 214 million additional people across Europe and Asia. Starting this […]

Developers creating applications and microservices for the Google Cloud Platform now have a new way to monitor, manage and secure their cloud Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The company this week announced general availability of Google Cloud Endpoints, an Application Programming Interface (API) management suite for cloud services customers. The technology features a server-local proxy dubbed […]