Google has become the latest company to fall victim to cyber criminals increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to bypass security measures and trick users with highly-realistic documents that install malware on networks. This Google attack, following a similar incident targeting Microsoft SharePoint servers globally, was confirmed earl...
Google has issued an urgent warning to its 1.8 billion Gmail users, warning that anyone with hacked account has just seven days to recover it or risk being locked out permanently. To regain access, users must have a recovery phone number or email set up. These backups allow Google to verify your identity through security […]
•Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Mexico will take Google to court if it insists on changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to “Gulf of America” for Maps users in the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum said today. She said her government had written again to the US company arguing that President Donald Trump’s executive order on [&helli...
•US President-elect Donald Trump United States aviation giant, Boeing, and technology powerhouse, Google, have each pledged $1million to the inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump. The donations mark their inclusion in a growing list of major American companies contributing to the event, scheduled for 20 January, to mark the start ...
Google, Meta, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Microsoft and social media platforms operating in Nigeria have paid N2.55 trillion ($1.5 billion) in taxes to FG in the first six months of 2024, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said. NITDA in a statement today said data from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS...
A US judge yesterday ordered Google to open its Android smartphone operating system to rival app stores, in a fresh legal setback for the tech giant. The order is the result of Google’s defeat in an antitrust case brought by Fortnite-maker Epic Games, where a California jury decided that Google wields illegal monopoly power through […]...
•Donald Trump Former United States President Donald Trump yesterday accused Google of showing only “bad stories” about him and vowed to have the tech giant prosecuted if he gets back in the White House. Trump provided no backing for his accusation in a post on his Truth Social platform, in which he added that the […]
Google made major changes to its search algorithm and spam filters earlier this year to get rid of low-quality content — but the effects have proved devastating to some smaller websites. Online businesses have been left considering layoffs and even site closures after Google’s massive upgrade in March and April caused catastrophic drops in tra...
Security researchers have uncovered a hack that allows cybercriminals to gain access to people’s Google accounts without needing their passwords. Analysis from security firm CloudSEK found that a dangerous form of malware uses third-party cookies to gain unauthorised access to people’s private data and is already being actively tested by hacki...
Google has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion in damages over allegations it tracked the data of users who thought they were browsing privately. In a court filing, the judge confirmed that lawyers for Google reached a preliminary agreement to settle the class action lawsuit — originally filed in […]...

