After a report said Google tracks users even when they opt out, the company is under fire from activists and has been slapped with a lawsuit.

A recent report found that Google services – with functions like checking maps, the weather, and search – are tracking users even when they deny permission.

In a stalking or random criminal scenario, the ability to guide someone to an out-of-the-way, isolated location could be a precursor to kidnapping or worse.

Ransomware purporting to come from a phony government agency, something called the Central Security Treatment Organization, has been making the rounds, researchers say. The ransomware, which is already known by a number of names including Cry, CSTO ransomware, or Central Security Treatment Organization ransomware, uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to communicate and the photo sharing service Imgur and Google...

URL shorteners are convenient, but for a long time gave security practitioners anxiety because it was difficult to determine where the shortened address was taking you. Two researchers have now given you new reasons to fear URL shorteners, especially for those storing and sharing data on cloud-based services. Independent researcher Martin Georgiev and Cornell University...