Don’t Be Evil: Google’s Scary ‘IP Protection’ Privacy Plan
Firefox here we come! “Free” privacy proxy for all Chrome users? What could POSSIBLY go wrong? ...
Google Enhances Play Protect to Defend Against Polymorphic Malware
Google is strengthening its Google Play Protect tool with new real-time scanning features that aim to deal with the growing challenge of malicious apps that use polymorphic malware to evade detection. The ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 10/13
Insight #1 Google is now defaulting to the use of passkeys for authentication. This is a huge step in increasing the strength of the authentication mechanism out of the box for users, ...
Patch Tuesday, October 2023 Edition
Microsoft today issued security updates for more than 100 newly-discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and related software, including four flaws that are already being exploited. In addition, Apple recently released ...
Google Pushes ‘Passkeys’ Plan — but it’s Too Soon for Mass Rollout
FIDO FAIL: “Killing passwords” is a worthy goal—but is coercion the best way? ...
Cloudflare, Google, AWS Battle Record-Setting ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS Attacks
Cloud giants Amazon Web Services, Google, and Cloudflare are warning about a novel zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol that allows threat groups to launch massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that dwarf ...
Google, Yahoo to Put Tighter Spam Restrictions on Bulk Senders
Email giants Google and Yahoo are putting tighter requirements on bulk email senders in hopes of reducing the massive amounts of spam that hammer inboxes every day and deflecting the phishing and ...
Lawsuit Filed Against Google, Meta, H&R Block for Sharing Taxpayer Data
Meta, Google, and giant tax preparer H&R Block are being accused of conspiring to illegally use spyware from the tech giants to collect and share tax return information from hundreds of taxpayers ...
Google: Chromebooks Will Get 10 Years of Software, Security Updates
Google next year will begin providing 10 years of automatic security and other software updates for Chromebooks in a move that addresses cyber concerns in the education sector and larger criticism that ...
Attackers Target Crypto Companies in Retool Data Breach
A data breach late last month of software development platform firm Retool led to the accelerated acquisition of one of its users and put a spotlight on an account synchronization feature that ...
