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Safer Internet Day 2017 – Google Highlights Need to Simplify Online Safety

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Safer Internet Day 2017 - Google Highlights Need to Simplify Online Safety

Many Internet users in India are coming online for the first time and there is a need to simplify ways to make them safe, a Google executive said in New Delhi on Tuesday, which is being celebrated as Safer Internet Day 2017 the world over. The theme of Safer Internet Day 2017 is ‘Be the change: unite for a better Internet’.

“We need to simplify and amplify ways by which users in India can stay safe. Safer Internet Day provides for an important opportunity to engage and encourage young users across the country to learn more about keeping themselves as well as their peers and families safe online,” Chetan Krishnaswamy, Director (Public Policy) Google India told reporters.

Google has been working on tools including spam detection and ‘Safe Browsing’ measuring billions of signals across sites and apps to make the web and the constellation of Android apps as well as devices safer, he added.

‘Safe Browsing’ feature warns users against unsafe websites found infected with malware, virus or a phishing trap.

Google has also developed the ‘app analyser’, a modified version of ‘Safe Browsing’ that specifically hunts for dangerous apps in Google Play, other app stores, and on the Web, and warns users on identifying any unsafe application.

As an effort to promote digital literacy and spread awareness around Internet safety, Google India on the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2017 distributed awards among the winners of the second edition of the Web Rangers initiative in India.

As part of this Web Rangers contest, young kids were asked to create and run their own online safety campaigns in the form of social campaigns, posters, videos and apps.

“Google remains committed to providing all users a safe online experience, and help make the broader web of sites and apps more secure as well,” said Sunita Mohanty, Director (Trust and Safety) Google India.

Google executives present on the occasion suggested that users should take quick Security Checkup – an easy way to review and manage Google Account’s security settings and keep the Google Account more secure.

[Source:- gadgets.ndtv]

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Google’s Key Transparency Initiative Aims to Simplify Encryption Systems Like PGP

by Rajdeep
written by Rajdeep

Google's Key Transparency Initiative Aims to Simplify Encryption Systems Like PGP

With the increasing reliance on Web services and software, the need for security and privacy measures is fast becoming paramount. To cater to this, developers have been using complex encryption methods to stay relevant. However, many still refrain from it, due to sheer complexity. Now, Google tries to tackle this by creating a public data framework that simplifies the developers’ job in building secure products and services moving forward.

Google has announced the open source release of its Key Transparency prototype, a platform that simplifies public key scanning. Google claims that this framework can be used by regular people as well, to verify a person’s online information through a public key.

“Existing methods of protecting users against server compromise require users to manually verify recipients’ accounts in-person. This simply hasn’t worked. Key Transparency is a general-use, transparent directory that makes it easy for developers to create systems of all kinds with independently auditable account data. It can be used in a variety of scenarios where data needs to be encrypted or authenticated. It can be used to make security features that are easy for people to understand while supporting important user needs like account recovery,” Google’s Ryan Hurst and Gary Belvin said in an announcement.

This framework looks to tackle the issues that complex systems like PGP face, due to which many developers avoid even using it. This public database will be created and managed by Google, and all the log changes to any user profile will also be public – and apparently cannot be tampered with. Thankfully, a user’s information can only be searched via their particular ID, and nothing else.

“Key Transparency dramatically improves the situation by providing a public audit record for all changes to data. When used with account data, Key Transparency provides a public audit record of all the actual recipients (in the form of public keys) associated with an account, all the times an account was updated, and who it was updated by-all in a privacy preserving way, ” Google’s Ryan Hurst and Gary Belvin said in an announcement.

Key Transparency looks to give developers all the data at hand to build simpler security features easily. Google claims it’s just a prototype, and the framework will be improved based on the security community’s feedback in the future.

[Source:- gadgets.ndtv]

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