Google Updates Search Engine Rules, Will Rank Sites Based on Their Mobile Versions First

Google announced on late Friday afternoon plans to use a website's mobile version as the primary content source for ranking sites for its search engine's results, in a move that its engineers have hinted at for the past year at several SEO conferences.

• Catalin Cimpanu
• November 06, 2016
• 11:00 AM
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Google Ban Spells the End of Controversial Chinese HTTPS Provider

Google has banned WoSign, a Chinese company that provides SSL/TLS certificates to support HTTPS traffic, after both Apple and Mozilla took similar steps in the past month.

• Catalin Cimpanu
• November 03, 2016
• 11:58 AM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition

Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.

Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.

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Google Chrome 53 Secretly Received a 15% Speed Boost on Windows PCs

Google revealed that Chrome had secretly received a speed boost on Windows since the start of September after its engineers had integrated a technology known as Profile Guided Optimization.

• Catalin Cimpanu
• November 02, 2016
• 12:15 PM
• 0

Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Before Microsoft Can Issue Patch

There's a tiny scandal brewing among two of Silicon Valley's elites after Google engineers have publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting several Windows operating system versions before Microsoft could issue a patch to address the issue.

• Catalin Cimpanu
• November 02, 2016
• 10:33 AM
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