Results about you

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Today, we’re announcing some important new features in Google Search to help you stay in control of your personal information, privacy and online safety.

An easier way to find and remove results about you

Last year, we launched the Results about you tool to make it easy for you to request the removal of search results that contain your personal phone number, home address or email, right from the Google app or however you access Search. Now, we’ve significantly updated and improved the tool, helping you keep track of your personal contact information in Search and alerting you when we find it, so you can get it removed.

https://blog.google/products/search/new-privacy-tools/

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Danielle Romain

VP, Trust

 

Black History (Jerry Lawson)

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Jerry Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) a self taught Electronic Engineer. He lead the team that innovated the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F video console released in 1976. Before the cartridge was developed you had to by a system to play only a few games and if you wanted to play different games you had to buy a new system. The innovation of the cartridge now allowed individuals to have one system and a library of games.

Jerry had an interests in scientific hobbies like building his own ham radio and chemistry. While working for Fairchild, Lawson and Ron Jones were the only black members of the Homebrew Computer Club witch included member like Steve Job and Steve Wozniak. Later in 1980, Jerry left Fairchild and founded  Videosoft, a video game development company that developed software for the Atari 2600 in the early 1980s.

 

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Malicious emails exploit people, not code

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Dramatic shifts in the threat landscape that started in 2015 continued throughout 2016 and into 2017. While exploit kits continue to drop as a percentage of malicious URL messages, over 90% of these links now lead to other sites, such as credential phishing pages. At the same time, ransomware exploded on the scene and targeted attacks grew to include new vectors used in tandem with email. Social media is now an integral part of an attacker’s arsenal with a 150% increase in angler phishing attacks, as more brands and industries are targeted in these schemes.

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