Google's Week: Pressuring a president, Glass return rumours, and 'Brillo' IoT push
Firm also worked with Twitter to allow tweets to be displayed in search results
This week saw Google joining Apple and others to urge president Obama to let firms encrypt data or face economic disaster. The company also cut its cloud prices to keep competitive with Amazon and Microsoft,...
More on Search
TikTok is 'fundamentally parastic' and little more than 'spyware', says Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
Popular social media app TikTok is 'always listening’ and its fingerprinting technology is ‘truly terrifying’, claims Reddit’s Hoffman
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council finally admits that it has suffered ransomware attack
IT systems at Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council have been down for three weeks
More than 100,000 hackers now make a career as bounty hunters, claims HackerOne
One-fifth of HackerOne's hackers are full-time bounty hunters - while for others, it's a route into lucrative new IT roles
Sports retailer Decathlon spills 123 million records, including unencrypted employee passwords
Improperly secured AWS ElasticSearch database contained ‘treasure trove’ of employee data, which may include UK staff
Magecart skimmers ran keyloggers on commerce provider's website for two-and-a-half years
Ecommerce platform compromised by eight different skimmers hosted accounts for a number of high-profile organisations
