Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 118 to the stable channel with fixes for 20 vulnerabilities, including 14 reported by external researchers. The most severe of the externally reported flaws is CVE-2023-5218, a critical bug described as a use-after-free issue in Site Isolation, Chrome’s component responsible for preventing sites from stealing other sites’ […]
Less than six months ago, Google announced that it was launching support for the password replacement known as “passkeys” for all personal accounts across its billions of users. Today, the company said it is going a step further and will make passkeys the default login setting for users. When you log in to your Google […]
Oct 10, 2023NewsroomServer Security / Vulnerability Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that relied on a novel technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. The layer 7 attacks were detected in late August 2023, the companies said in a coordinated disclosure. The cumulative […]
Google on Monday announced the release of patches for 51 vulnerabilities as part of the October 2023 security updates for Android, including fixes for two zero-day flaws exploited in malicious attacks. The first of the exploited issues is CVE-2023-4863 (CVSS score of 8.8), a heap buffer overflow in the Libwebp library that leads to an […]
Enlarge Getty Images Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday. Two weeks ago, Apple reported that threat actors were actively exploiting […]
The adoption of passkeys by GitHub, Microsoft, and Google, among other technology giants, demonstrates a growing trend toward using passkeys for secure authentication across platforms.
Google says that starting in 2024, all Chromebooks released after 2021 will automatically qualify for ten years of security updates, delivered automatically to the device every four weeks.
Search giant Google agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California on Thursday over its location-privacy practices. The settlement follows a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states, reached in November 2022, to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations. The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press […]
A recently introduced Google account sync feature has been blamed by software development firm Retool after sophisticated hackers gained access to its systems and targeted over two dozen of its customers from the cryptocurrency sector. Retool is a San Francisco, California-based company that provides a development platform designed for building custom business tools without the […]