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Google is a technology company whose ecosystem includes internet services, cloud infrastructure, mobile software, browsers, and productivity platforms. In information security, the tag commonly covers vulnerabilities and security changes across these services, as well as Google’s role as an identity and data-processing provider for organizations.
Material risks include compromised Google accounts, overly permissive cloud identities or APIs, exposed stored data, and unpatched flaws in software such as Android or Chrome. Security teams should track relevant advisories, prioritize patches based on affected assets and exposure, enforce strong authentication and least-privilege access, and review logging for suspicious account or service activity. Google’s collection and processing of user, device, and organizational data also makes privacy controls, retention settings, contractual obligations, and regulatory compliance important. Its vulnerability-disclosure and threat-intelligence work can inform defensive monitoring, but does not replace asset inventory, configuration review, or tested recovery procedures.
Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.…
Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…
Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy RSAC 2026 Google's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.…
Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins RSAC 2026 Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.…