Tag: Google’s


  • Third-party cookies have been the lynchpin of online advertising for many years. Plans to phase cookies out forever continue to run at a steady pace, with Google in the driving seat. In 2019, it announced its vision for a “Privacy Sandbox”. The building blocks for this were essentially: Most aspects of the web need money […]

  • Google’s bug bounty has been expanded to not only covers the firm’s own products, but additionally all apps in the official Google Play store which have had 100 million or more installs. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley

  • Bug hunter Thomas Orlita discovered an XSS vulnerability in Google’s Invoice Submission Portal that would have allowed attackers access to Google’s internal network The Czech researcher Thomas Orlita discovered an XSS vulnerability in Google’s Invoice Submission Portal that would have allowed attackers access to part of Google’s internal network. The Google Invoice Submission Portal is […]

  • In October of 2018 my site was hit by a meteor called Google. My traffic dropped by over 60% in just a couple of weeks—going from around 10,000 pageviews a day, to around 4,000. Read about the March 2018 Update After some research and help from Thomas Zickell, I knew that this was a Google […]