The Hidden Dangers of Browser Extensions: Where Google’s MV3 Still Fall Short
A recent Forbes article by Davey Winder discussed a brilliant publication by Stanford researchers Sheryl Hsu, Manda Tran and Aurore Fass. It was discovered nearly 350 million Chrome extensions installed had privacy ...
Google Uses Its Big Sleep AI Agent to Find SQLite Security Flaw
Google researchers behind the vendor's Big Sleep project used the LLM-based AI agent to detect a security flaw in SQLite, illustrating the value the emerging technology can have in discovering vulnerabilities that ...
E2EE is MIA in iPhone/Android Chat — GSMA Gonna Fix it
No More Barf-Green Bubbles? GSM Association is “excited” to bring Apple and Google closer together, but encryption is still lacking ...
North Korean Group Uses Fake Job Offers to Target Energy, Aerospace Sectors
The North Korean-backed threat group UNC2970 is using spearphishing emails and WhatsApp messages to entice high-level executives in the energy and aerospace sectors to open a malicious ZIP file containing a fake ...
Google’s Monopoly: The Debate Heats Up, Amazon Alexa Privacy Tips
This week, we discuss Google’s recent accusation by the U.S. Justice Department for being a monopoly and its implications for privacy and cybersecurity. We also cover essential privacy settings for Alexa smart ...
Black Hat Preview: CrowdStrike, Disinformation Lead The Narrative
As cybersecurity experts make their way to the one-armed bandits and scorching heat in Las Vegas for Black Hat USA 2024 next week, the specter of the CrowdStrike Inc. debacle looms large ...
Google, Microsoft, Others Support U.S.-Based Spyware Lawsuits
Microsoft and Google were joined by LinkedIn, GitHub, and Trend Micro in a supporting an appeal of a lawsuit against spyware maker NSO Group that was tossed by a U.S. judge who ...
EFF Angry as Google Keeps 3rd-Party Cookies in Chrome
Regulatory capture by stealth? Google changes its mind about third-party tracking cookies—we’re stuck with them for the foreseeable ...
Wiz Walks Away From $23 Billion Google Bid
Cloud security startup Wiz reportedly is rejecting Google's $23 billion acquisition bid, with the CEO saying the Israeli company will now focus on going public and reach the point of having $1 ...
Report Identifies More Than 250 Evil Twin Mobile Applications
The Satori Threat Intelligence Team funded by HUMAN Security, a provider of a platform thwarting bot-based attacks, today disclosed it has uncovered a massive ad fraud operation involving the setting up of ...
