Carbanak Using Google Services for Command and Control

Carbanak has surfaced again with new campaigns using Google hosted services such as Forms and Sheets as command and control channels. Continue reading Carbanak Using Google Services for Command and Control

Garage Door Opener Logs to Google Drive

A garage door opener is a pretty classic hack around these parts. IR, Bluetooth, WiFi, smartphone controlled, web interfaces — we’ve seen it all.  But if you want to keep track of people going in and out, you need some way of logging what’s happening. You could go ahead and roll up your own SQL based solution, tied into a custom web page. But there’s an easier way; you can build a garage door opener that logs events to Google Drive.

[WhiskeyTangoHotel] was looking for an ESP8266 project, and a garage door opener seemed just the ticket. It’s simple enough …read more

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Extensibility Comes to Google Docs and Sheets on Android

Following in the footsteps of Microsoft, Google is bringing extensibility functionality to the Android versions of its Docs and Sheets apps. But Google’s Docs and Sheets add-ons aren’t as sophisticated as what Microsoft provides, and they aren’t cross-… Continue reading Extensibility Comes to Google Docs and Sheets on Android

Google connects BigQuery to Google Drive and Sheets

google data center Google today announced that it is bringing some of its Google Cloud Platform and Google Apps tools a little bit closer together. BigQuery, Google’s serverless analytics data warehousing service, will now be able to read files from Google Drive and access spreadsheets from Google Sheets. There has long been something of a firewall between Google’s cloud computing services and its… Read More Continue reading Google connects BigQuery to Google Drive and Sheets