
App Stores OK’ed VPNs Run by China PLA
Richi Jennings | | 360 Security Technology, App Store, App Stores, Apple, CCP, china, china espionage, China-nexus cyber espionage, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese cyber espionage, chinese government, free vpn app, google, Google Play Store, Peoples Republic of China, Privacy, Qihoo 360, SB Blogwatch, Signal Secure VPN, Snap VPN, Tech Transparency Project, Thunder VPN, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Turbo VPN, VPN, VPN Proxy Master
Bad Apple: Chinese firm banned by the U.S. is the shady entity behind a clutch of free VPN apps—with over a million downloads ...
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Google Makes Sending Encrypted Emails Easier for Gmail Users
Google is making it easier for Gmail users to send end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) emails to anyone by adopting a process that does away with complex options like S/MIME and instead uses encrypted ...
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Fifth Circuit Strikes Down “Geofence” Warrants – Conflict With Fourth Circuit
Geofence warrants are a relatively new tool that allows law enforcement to obtain location data from devices within a specified geographic area during a specific time frame ...
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Google Agrees to Acquire Wiz in $30B Deal
Google today revealed it has acquired Wiz, a provider of a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) for $32 billion cash after initially being rebuffed last year ...
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The Buddy System: Why Google is Finally Killing SMS Authentication
Like the Buddy System in The Simpsons, SMS authentication was only foolproof if everything went right. But when both “buddies” could be compromised at the same time, the entire system was doomed ...
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Lines Between Nation-State and Cybercrime Groups Disappearing: Google
Threat researchers with Google are saying that the lines between nation-state actors and cybercrime groups are blurring, noting that gangs backed by China, Russia, and others are using financially motivated hackers and ...
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DMARC Adoption among U.S. and Canada Retailers
John Bowers | | dmarc, DMARC Adoption Trends, DMARC benefits, Ecosystem News, Email Security Insights, google, research, Yahoo
In our final installment of DMARC adoption research among retailers, we’re taking a look at the domain security stance of the United States' and Canada's top retailers ...

DMARC Adoption among European Retailers
John Bowers | | dmarc, DMARC Adoption Trends, DMARC benefits, Ecosystem News, Email Security Insights, google, research, Yahoo
In this installment of our DMARC adoption research, we’re focusing on how the Europe retailers are protecting their domains from phishing exploits with DMARC ...

The Hidden Dangers of Browser Extensions: Where Google’s MV3 Still Fall Short
A recent Forbes article by Davey Winder discussed a brilliant publication by Stanford researchers Sheryl Hsu, Manda Tran and Aurore Fass. It was discovered nearly 350 million Chrome extensions installed had privacy ...

Google Uses Its Big Sleep AI Agent to Find SQLite Security Flaw
Google researchers behind the vendor's Big Sleep project used the LLM-based AI agent to detect a security flaw in SQLite, illustrating the value the emerging technology can have in discovering vulnerabilities that ...
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