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 ...
Google Brings Curated Detections to Cloud Security Service
Google has made generally available a set of curated detections for organizations that have adopted its Chronicle SecOps Suite. Chris Corde, director of product management for security at Google Cloud, said those ...
Gmail Lets Candidates Spam You — FEC FAIL
Politicians convinced the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that Google must give them a free pass through Gmail’s spam filters ...
Google ‘Delays Making Less Money’ — Third-Party Cookie Ban on Hold
Google’s plan to kill third party cookies is delayed—yet again. And it’s probably not surprising ...
Police Use New Keyword Search Tool in Colorado Arson Investigation
In August of 2020, there was a horrific house fire on a quiet suburban street in Denver, Colorado. Several people were killed; others injured. The police sought and obtained more than 23 ...
Google: Poor Software Fixes Cause Half of all Zero-Days
Researchers from Google’s Project Zero examined 18 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by hackers this year before a patch was available; they found that half those vulnerabilities could have been avoided if software vendors ...
Could TikTok Be Removed From App Stores, HackerOne Employee Caught Stealing Vulnerability Reports, California Gun Owner Data Breach
The commissioner of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), asked the CEOs of Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores, bug bounty platform HackerOne disclosed that a former employee improperly ...
Google Launches Advanced API Security to Combat API Threats
Google launched a preview version of a service, called Advanced API Security, aimed at helping organizations combat growing threats targeting application programming interfaces (APIs). The goal of the service, built on the ...
The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet
On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past ...