A photo of a cyber clinic. (Courtesy of Google) Google announces $20 million investment for cyber clinics The announcement dovetails with growing interest in Congress to invest in the next generation of the cyber workforce. Jun 22, 2023 By Tonya Riley
Person’s hand holding an iPhone using the Google Bard generative AI language model (chatbot) with prompt entry field, Lafayette, California, March 22, 2023. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) AI chatbots want your geolocation data. Privacy experts say beware. Sharing any form of personal data with generative AI models can be risky, experts say. Jun 8, 2023 By Tonya Riley
A participant walks past a Google logo at a stand at the 2022 Re:publica digital society festival on June 9, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Security professional’s tweet forces big change to Google email authentication Gmail is tightening its implementation of an email security protocol after a researcher discovered a flaw allowing brands to be impersonated. Jun 7, 2023 By AJ Vicens
A photo taken on March 31, 2023 in Manta, near Turin, shows a computer screen with the home page of the artificial intelligence OpenAI web site, displaying its chatGPT robot.(Marco BERTORELLO / AFP) Reality check: What will generative AI really do for cybersecurity? Cybersecurity professionals are eyeing generative AI’s defensive potential with a mix of skepticism and excitement. May 23, 2023 By Elias Groll Christian Vasquez AJ Vicens
Identity management is key to cloud security, researchers say. (Getty Images) Nation-state actors are taking advantage of weak passwords to go after cloud customers, Google says Weak passwords accounted for nearly half of the security incidents affecting Google Cloud customers. Apr 13, 2023 By Tonya Riley
Håkan Dahlström/Flickr California lawmaker seeks to end to ‘reverse warrants’ that could pinpoint abortion seekers Lawmakers say the overly broad surveillance tool poses a major threat to reproductive privacy. Feb 13, 2023 By Tonya Riley
View of a six year old boy at a computer workstation. (Getty) State legislators aren’t waiting for Congress to regulate children’s online privacy More states are following California's lead in regulating children's privacy. But experts say the laws raise many tough questions. Jan 17, 2023 By Tonya Riley
The U.S. Supreme Court Building on Oct. 03, 2022. The high court will hear a landmark content moderation case involving Google this term. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) White House argues platforms should be liable if algorithms promote harmful content The Biden administration argues that companies such as Google should be responsible for harmful content their algorithms promote. Dec 8, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley
Photo by Hoch Zwei/Corbis via Getty Images Facebook warns 1 million users about apps trying to compromise accounts Facebook identified 400 apps across the Google Play and Apple App store that posed as harmless lifestyle and business services to dupe users. Oct 7, 2022 By Tonya Riley
Google has long struggled to stop advertising it serves from appearing on websites owned by Russia. (Getty Images) Google says it cut off Russian disinformation sites from its vast ad display network Dunkin Donuts, Citibank and Adidas have had their Google-placed ads displayed on Russian state-owned sites fueling disinformation. Sep 1, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley