Italy’s antitrust regulator, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has fined Apple and Google €10 million each their “aggressive” data practices. Italy’s antitrust regulator, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has fined Apple and Google €10 million each their “aggressive” data practices and the lack of transparency on the use of […]
Google is going to increase the bounty for finding and exploiting privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Good news for white hat hackers, Google is going to increase the bounty for demonstrating privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The payouts for privilege escalation exploits using a known vulnerability will be up to US$31,337, […]
Spook.js is a new side-channel attack on modern processors that can allow bypassing Site Isolation protections implemented in Google Chrome. Boffins devised a transient side-channel attack on modern processors, “Spook.js,” that can be abused by threat actors to bypass Site Isolation protections implemented in Google Chrome and Chromium browsers. The technique allows in some cases to steal sensitive […]
Google introduces Private Compute Services, a collection of services aimed at designing to improve privacy in the Android operating system. Good news for Android users, Google has implemented the Private Compute Services, a set of features aimed at improving their privacy. “We introduced Android’s Private Compute Core in Android 12 Beta. Today, we’re excited to announce a […]
Google this week addressed 14 vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser, including a zero-day flaw that has been exploited in the wild. Google released security updates to address 14 vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser, including a zero-day issue that has been exploited in the wild. The most severe of these flaws, tracked as CVE-2021-30544, is a […]
Google Project Zero security team has updated its vulnerability disclosure policy, it gives users 30 days to patch flaws before disclosing associated technical details. The Google Project Zero security team announced an update to its vulnerability disclosure policy, it could include additional 30 days to the disclosure process for some bugs to give end-users enough […]
Google addressed a zero-day vulnerability affecting Android devices that use Qualcomm chipsets which is actively exploited in the wild. Google has addressed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-11261, affecting Android devices that use Qualcomm chipsets. According to the IT giant, threat actors are actively exploiting the vulnerability in attacks in the wild. The CVE-2020-11261 flaw, is […]
Google has addressed a new zero-day flaw in its Chrome browser that has been actively exploited in the wild, the second one within a month Google has fixed a new actively exploited zero-day in its Chrome browser, this is the second zero-day issue addressed by the IT giant within a month. The flaw, tracked as […]
Google addressed 37 vulnerabilities with the release of the Android security updates for March 2021, including a critical flaw in the System component. Google released security updates to address 37 vulnerabilities as part of the Android security updates for March 2021, the most severe one is a critical flaw in the System component tracked as […]
Google revealed that Gmail users from the United States are the most targeted by email-based phishing and malware. A joint five-month study conducted by Google with Stanford University researchers analyzed over 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users to determine what are factors influence the risk of attack. Experts discovered that malicious […]