Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security EngineersThree years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security boundaries on the web. It quickly became clear that flaws in modern processors undermined the guarantees that web b…
Posted by Eugene Liderman, Android Security and Privacy TeamEvaluating the security of mobile devices is difficult, and a trusted way to validate a company’s claims is through independent, industry certifications. When it comes to smartphones one of th…
Posted by Parisa Tabriz, Head of Chrome Product, Engineering and UX In an effort to showcase the breadth and depth of Black+ contributions to security and privacy fields, we’ve launched a profile series that aims to elevate and celebrate the Black…
ESET researchers investigate what could possibly go wrong when you connect your bedroom to the internet of things
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Posted by Jonathan Metzman, Google Open Source Security TeamOSS-Fuzz, Google’s open source fuzzing service, now supports fuzzing applications written in Java and other Java Virtual Machine (JVM) based languages (e.g. Kotlin, Scala, etc.). Open source p…
ESET Research has found LuckyMouse, Tick, Winnti Group, and Calypso, among others, are likely using the recent Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities to compromise email servers all around the world
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What happens when you try to opt out of e-health to avoid issues in the event of a breach?
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Posted by Kim Lewandowski & Dan Lorenc, Google Open Source Security TeamOne of the fundamental security issues with open source is that it’s difficult to know where the software comes from or how it was built, making it susceptible to supply c…
While chats are end-to-end encrypted, their backups are not – this may change soon
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The number of women joining the ranks of cybersecurity practitioners is steadily increasing, but a lot still needs to be done to close the gap
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