Jaikumar Vijayan

Polish firm Security Explorations claims it has discovered more than two-dozen vulnerabilities in the Google App Engine Java environment, some of which allow native code execution and Java security sandbox escape. There are potentially several more vulnerabilities in the environment that the company has not been able to verify so far, Adam Gowdiak, CEO of […]

It’s not just consumers, apparently, that are waiting for Google Inbox but business users of Google Apps, as well. If a Reddit Ask Us Anything session earlier this week is any indication, there appears to be at least some pent up interest in an email replacement for Gmail among business users. The interest appears to […]

Google appears to be ramping up efforts to go after bigger corporate customers, a market that it has struggled to make an impression on, despite its dominance in other segments. The Internet giant is planning on giving resellers incentives to more aggressively push its Google Apps for Work enterprise software and services by increasing their […]

Anyone who has tried solving a CAPTCHA knows how frustrating the experience can get sometimes. The increasingly distorted text and audio used by some CAPTCHAs to confound sophisticated spambots and other automated software programs can just as easily stymie humans. Google is hoping to address that issue with its new “NoCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA,” a widget that […]

Google has validated its Cloud Platform for compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in a move designed to appeal to businesses handling large volumes of credit and debit card data. The certification will allow companies to store and process payment card data on the Google Cloud Platform in a manner […]

Google’s low-cost Chromebook laptops have for the first time overtaken Apple’s iPads in sales to U.S. schools. New, unpublished sales figures for the U.S. education market for tablets and PCs from IDC show that vendors selling Chromebooks shipped a total of 715,000 units to U.S. schools, compared with 702,000 iPad’s sold by Apple. The lead, […]

European Union privacy regulators may ask Google to extend users’ “right to be forgotten” to its Websites outside the EU as well. Regulators meeting in Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 26 have prepared a proposal that will require Google to apply the EU privacy obligation—which gives its citizens the right to ask Google to remove content—to its […]

Enterprise users of Google Apps now have a way to become more involved in securing their accounts against potential threats. The company this week rolled out a new devices and activity dashboard that it says will let Google Apps users keep tabs on all the devices that are connected to their Google accounts at any […]

Google’s Project Loon initiative to deliver Internet connectivity to rural and remote areas around the world using a global network of high-altitude balloons appears to be gathering momentum. In a recent blog update, the company said it now has the capability to launch up to 20 Project Loon balloons every day, each of which it […]