Welcome to this week's Threat Level Thursday, where we'll see how the NSA shares its information with other law enforcement agencies, the power of encryption, how Android may be the bane of some Android apps, and the unnerving conviction of a former U.S. cybersecurity official.
Android users beware: several high-profile apps containing sensitive information have vulnerabilities, engineers said last Friday, which malicious hackers can exploit. Among the apps affected? Gmail.
Students using Google Apps for Education will now be happy to know that Google will stop scanning emails for advertising purposes following a lawsuit in California.
A lot happened this week in the world of social media. Pinterest started testing GIFs, Princeton declared that Facebook would die in three years, Facebook released a clever rejoinder, Instagram was revealed to be the fastest-growing social media platform on the planet, and Google+ went down, along with Gmail services, but hardly anyone noticed. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
Google has shoehorned its underachieving social network Google+ into yet another Google service (after controversially linking YouTube's comments system with Google+), this time integrating Google+ with its ubiquitous email service, Gmail.
