Google has been ordered by a magistrate judge in Philadelphia to turn over emails stored abroad. While we don’t have all the details of the case, it appears to be related to a domestic fraud case. The emails in question are stored in a foreign country. The case is a domestic case. Last summer, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Android community is slowly beginning to understand that they are going to have to step up to the plate and deal with security like Apple has done from the beginning. The challenge is that unlike Apple, where there is one master in control, the Android community is fractured. The only one who has any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday, I beat up Apple. Today, I am beating up Google. I am an equal opportunity beater-upper. When you buy an Android phone, it backs your junk to the cloud unless you go out of your way to tell it not to. That way if you lose your phone or buy a new one, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you depend on Google search engine position for your business, the world changed last week. As of April 21st, 2015, Google is using mobile friendliness as a criteria in search engine rankings. This affects mobile search (not your desktop) in all languages, world wide. Google has been saying that mobile friendliness is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote about an attack on hotel routers a few weeks ago (see post). Today, I heard more details on the attack. ANTlabs InnGate router, used by many hotel chains (see advisory), was configured incorrectly. This configuration error allowed anyone to read or write any file in the router, thereby easily owning that router and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is a smart organization. It has watched the stranglehold that Apple has over its users and has decided that it likes it. Just like art imitates life, Google imitates Apple (and then says “who me?”). The issue at point is a bug found in the WebView rendering engine, used in all Android releases prior […]
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