Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over Malware
Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the app. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published ...
‘See No Evil’ — Mozilla SLAMS Google’s App Privacy Labels
Google doesn’t want you to know what your Android apps do with your data. That seems to be the conclusion from a Mozilla study into the Play Store ...
Reddit Hacked, Preventing Accidental Location Sharing, Developer Hacks His Own Company
Reddit announced that it was the victim of a phishing attack aimed at its employees, resulting in unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. Advice on managing device ...
Password Managers Under Attack, Shady Reward Apps on Google Play, Meta Account Center 2FA Bypass
The attacks on password managers and their users continue as Bitwarden and 1Password users have reported seeing paid ads for phishing sites in Google search results for the official login page of ...
Judge Orders U.S. Lawyer in Russian Botnet Case to Pay Google
In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba, one of the Internet's largest and oldest botnets. The defendants, who initially pursued ...
The Rise of Mastodon, Twitter in Trouble, Largest Privacy Settlement in US History
Former Twitter users are migrating en masse to Mastodon so what is Mastodon and what do you need to know about Mastodon from a security and privacy perspective? Twitter was flooded by ...
Hacking Google: Lessons From the Security Team, Part Two
When it was launched in 2009, the Operation Aurora cyberattack was one of the first major nation-state cyberattacks aimed at private industry. Its impact forced organizations to take a hard look at ...
Hacking Google: Lessons From the Security Team, Part One
Cybersecurity is a battle that all organizations must fight, and there is really no point in doing it alone. Sharing information – the latest attack vectors, shifts in tactics, new-found defenses – ...
Google Vulnerability Reward Program Focuses on Open Source Software
Google’s bug bounty program will be expanded to include a special open source section called the Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP), the company announced on its security blog. Through ...
Cyber Security DE:CODED – Cloud security
“As long as anything is online, it’s open for strangers to try to break protection” Show notes for series 2, episode 4 The ‘cloud’ is integrating with our lives at ever more ...
