Android

FIDO Authentication From Google & Others Will Soon Be More Widespread

FIDO authentication methods will soon be much more widespread for services and products from Apple, Google, and Microsoft. That’s based on reports following an announcement from the FIDO Alliance. For ...
Forbes

Gmail Security Warning As Emails Vanish—Here’s The Fix From Google

Google provides help with disappearing Gmail messages. Update, Dec. 13, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 12, now includes further information about how Gmail defines bulk senders and ...
Forbes

Millions Of Sign-In-With-Google Users Warned Of Data-Theft Vulnerability

Update, Jan. 16, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 15, now includes a statement from Google and further clarification of the initial response to the researcher’s findings, as well as ...
Android

Google Play Store purchases will use biometric authentication soon

Google will give you the option to use biometric authentication when making purchases on the Google Play Store. This will be an alternative to using the synced Google account password. The Android OS ...
Bleeping Computer

Google: Malware abusing API is standard token theft, not an API issue

Google is downplaying reports of malware abusing an undocumented Google Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies when previously stolen ones have expired. In late November 2023, ...
GizChina

Google Simplifies Its Two-Factor Authentication System

Previously, users could enable 2FA but lacked the option to define the secondary verification method upfront. This update rectifies that by allowing users to choose a second-factor method – such as ...