Manipulating Systems Using Remote Lasers
Many systems are vulnerable: Researchers at the time said that they were able to launch inaudible commands by shining lasers — from as far as 360 feet — at the microphones on ...
Google Finally Pulls Chinese Apps Stealing Personal Data
After six million downloads, two spyware Baidu apps have been removed from the Play Store. What took Google so long? ...
Introducing the Cloud Sensor for GCP
By Vijit Nair, Sr. Director, Product Management, Corelight Visibility is paramount in securing your cloud environment – as the adage goes, you cannot protect what you do not see. However, comprehensive visibility ...
Can I Use Google With LDAP?
Google Suite, also known as Google Workspace, is many people’s go to cloud-based productivity suite. G-Suite is a collection of collaboration tools and software that organizations can use to increase efficiency in ...
Google Responds to Warrants for “About” Searches
One of the things we learned from the Snowden documents is that the NSA conducts “about” searches. That is, searches based on activities and not identifiers. A normal search would be on ...
The Social Dilemma
In episode 142 for October 12th 2020: My conversation about the pros and cons of the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma” with frequent guest, Kevin Johnson. The Social Dilemma is a popular ...
Google Gives Cops Your Search Terms – Let the Frog-Boiling Commence
Google stands accused of agreeing to overly-broad search warrants, which might violate the Fourth Amendment ...
Google Prepares Security Team to Investigate Third-Party Apps
Google is preparing a new security initiative and building a new team with a single purpose — to investigate sensitive applications available through the Google Play Store. Google scans all Android apps ...
More Hospital Ransomware Attacks, FBI’s Disinformation Warning, Android 11 Privacy Features
In episode 141 for October 5th 2020: Universal Health Services is the latest victim of a massive hospital ransomware attack, the FBI issues new warnings about false claims of hacked voter information, ...
StartPage.com – The World’s Most Private Search Engine
In episode 139 for September 21st 2020: This week we take a break from the news to bring you our interview with Alex Kubiak, Senior Product Manager at StartPage.com. StartPage is a ...

