The Parallax

JULY 25, 2018

Leading sites hosting services or content as broad as fantasy football, Doctor Who , and search in China have this in common: Google Chrome now marks them as unsafe to visit. As of Tuesday, the browser labels ESPN.com, BBC.com, Baidu.com, and thousands of other sites that don’t use HTTPS as “Not secure.”. Courtesy Google.

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The Parallax

AUGUST 23, 2018

READ MORE PARALLAX PRIMERS. Why Google is pushing HTTPS. Why are Androids less secure than iPhones? Why people are flocking to messaging app Signal. Why (and how) to stop cryptojacking. Rogers wrote that he understands “why hotels need to adapt to a new threat vector. What’s in an APT?

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The Parallax

MAY 18, 2018

Google is prepping the Android world for its next upgrade, code-named Android P, with an array of security and privacy enhancements. That gives users a lot more control and more transparency into which apps have access to their sensors,” Xiaowen Xin, Android security product manager, said at Google’s annual I/O developer conference on May 10.

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