Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2019
Google aims at eliminating the use of deceptive installation tactics among Chrome browser extensions introducing a new policy. Google announced a new policy for Chrome browser extensions to eliminate the use of deceptive installation tactics. The additional changes are part of the Project Strobe presented by Google in October 2018 in the aftermath of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2019
Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
The Reuters agency revealed in exclusive that Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the telco giant. The news a bomb, Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the Chinese telco giant. In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2019
Google this week announced that it is going to block login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to prevent man-in-the-middle (MiTM) phishing attacks. Phishing attacks carried out by injecting malicious content in legitimate traffic are difficult to detect when attackers use an embedded browser framework or any other automated tool for authentication. For example, the embedded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2019
A change made months ago in an open-source JavaScript library introduced a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Search. The Japanese security researcher Masato Kinugawa discovered an XSS vulnerability in Google Search that was introduced with a change made months ago in an open-source JavaScript library. The library is named Closure and according to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2019
Google recently shared details about its efforts against malicious advertisement, the giant took down 2.3 billion bad ads last year. Google revealed that it took down 2.3 billion bad ads in 2018, including 58.8 million phishing ads for violation of its policies. Google introduced 31 new ads policies in 2018, aiming at protecting users from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2019
Google Chronicle launched Backstory, the first global security telemetry platform designed to allow companies monitoring cyber threats. Google Chronicle announced Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that allows companies quickly investigate incidents, discover vulnerabilities and hunt for cyber threats. Google aims at analyzing network data and logs generated by enterprises on a daily basis […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2019
Google on Wednesday revealed that it forgot to inform users that its Nest Secure home alarm system includes a microphone. Google announced this week that it forgot to inform users that its Nest Secure home alarm system includes a microphone. “The problem: Nest users didn’t know a microphone existed on their security device to begin […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2019
Google has open sourced ClusterFuzz, its fuzzing infrastructure it has developed to find memory corruption vulnerabilities in Chrome. Google has open sourced its fuzzing infrastructure ClusterFuzz that the tech giant developed to find memory corruption bugs in the Chrome browser. ClusterFuzz is a scalable fuzzing tool that can run on clusters with more than 25,000 cores. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2019
Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli, founder of Yoroi,discovered a way to spread CSV malware via Google Sheets … but Big G says it is anIntended behavior A .CSV file could be a malware carrier and if interpreted by Microsoft Excel it could become a malware executor ! When I personally saw this technique back in […]
