The Whitehouse hosted an Open Source Software Security Summit on Thursday, January 13, 2022. The Biden administration wants government and private sector organizations to rally their efforts and resources to secure open-source software and its supply chain after the Log4J [...]
In February of this year, Google removed over 500 malicious plugins from the Chrome store which stole data from nearly 1.7 million users. While the tech-giant announced they have since taken several steps to improve the browser’s privacy and security protections, [...]
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent. When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation [...]
Verizon has confirmed to The Verge that it will be launching RCS Chat on the Pixel 3 and 3 XL on December 6th. Only those two phones on Verizon will have the feature, but the company tells me that it is “committed [...]
This March, as Facebook was coming under global scrutiny over the harvesting of personal data for Cambridge Analytica, Google discovered a skeleton in its own closet: a bug in the API for Google+ had been allowing third-party app developers to access [...]
The bug allowed the researcher to see the most sensitive vulnerabilities in Google's services. However the bug was patched within an hour of learning about the exploit. Google has an internal platform called Google Issue Tracker that tracks a list [...]
