David Wall/Getty Images Sanctioned and exposed, Predator spyware maker group has gone awfully quiet Sanctions, newspaper investigations and reports exposing the Intellexa alliance’s infrastructure all might have led to its diminished state. Jul 1, 2024 By Tim Starks
A cosplayer dressed as the Star Wars character Darth Vader holds a mobile phone displaying a government alert issued to all smartphones to test a system used to warn of life-threatening emergencies at the Scarborough Sci-Fi Convention in Scarborough north-east England on April 23, 2023. (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images) Spyware and zero-day exploits increasingly go hand-in-hand, researchers find Researchers found 97 zero-days exploited in the wild in 2023; nearly two thirds of mobile and browser flaws were used by spyware firms. Mar 27, 2024 By Tim Starks
Network data transfer speed on a dark background. (Getty Images) Largest-ever DDoS leverages zero-day vulnerability A new zero-day led to the largest distributed denial of service attack ever seen on the internet, according to a group of tech companies. Oct 10, 2023 By Christian Vasquez
In this photo illustration, the logo of the Google and You Tube Kids applications are displayed on the screen of an iPhone. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) Tech advocacy groups press FTC to investigate Google for alleged children’s privacy violations The request follows calls from members of Congress for the FTC to investigate whether YouTube violated a federal children's privacy law. Aug 23, 2023 By Tonya Riley
Getty Images Online influence operators continue fine-tuning use of AI to deceive their targets, researchers say The use of artificial intelligence for malign purposes is limited but growing and maturing in key ways, researchers with Google's Mandiant said Thursday. Aug 17, 2023 By AJ Vicens
‘Downfall’ vulnerability leaves billions of Intel CPUs at risk A vulnerability in Intel’s x86 chips major raises questions about the assumptions underlying computer security models. Aug 8, 2023 By Elias Groll
A photo of a cyber clinic. (Courtesy of Google) Google announces $20 million investment for cyber clinics The announcement dovetails with growing interest in Congress to invest in the next generation of the cyber workforce. Jun 22, 2023 By Tonya Riley
Person’s hand holding an iPhone using the Google Bard generative AI language model (chatbot) with prompt entry field, Lafayette, California, March 22, 2023. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) AI chatbots want your geolocation data. Privacy experts say beware. Sharing any form of personal data with generative AI models can be risky, experts say. Jun 8, 2023 By Tonya Riley
A participant walks past a Google logo at a stand at the 2022 Re:publica digital society festival on June 9, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Security professional’s tweet forces big change to Google email authentication Gmail is tightening its implementation of an email security protocol after a researcher discovered a flaw allowing brands to be impersonated. Jun 7, 2023 By AJ Vicens
A photo taken on March 31, 2023 in Manta, near Turin, shows a computer screen with the home page of the artificial intelligence OpenAI web site, displaying its chatGPT robot.(Marco BERTORELLO / AFP) Reality check: What will generative AI really do for cybersecurity? Cybersecurity professionals are eyeing generative AI’s defensive potential with a mix of skepticism and excitement. May 23, 2023 By Elias Groll Christian Vasquez AJ Vicens