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Global Payments and Google deliver digital capabilities to merchants worldwide

February 9, 2021

Global Payments and Google announced an expansive multi-year partnership to deliver innovative cloud-based products and capabilities, enabling best-in-class digital merchant …

February 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: The human communication aspect

February 5, 2021

We spend a lot of time each month discussing the technical details surrounding vulnerabilities, software updates, and the tools we use for patch management in our …

Security researchers targeted by North Korean hackers

January 26, 2021

Over the past few months, hackers have been trying to surreptitiously backdoor the computer systems of a number of security researchers working on vulnerability research and …

Bugs in Signal, other video chat apps allowed attackers to listen in on users

January 21, 2021

Bugs in several messaging/video chat mobile apps allowed attackers to spy on targeted users’s surroundings. The vulnerabilities – in Signal, Google Duo, Facebook …

Dnsmasq vulnerabilities open networking devices, Linux distros to DNS cache poisoning

January 19, 2021

Seven vulnerabilities affecting Dnsmasq, a caching DNS and DHCP server used in a variety of networking devices and Linux distributions, could be leveraged to mount DNS cache …

January 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: New focus on security and software development

January 8, 2021

2020 is in the rearview mirror and most of us can’t get away fast enough. It was a year unlike any other, but 2021 looks to be unique as well. The year started out with …

How to reduce the risk of third-party SaaS apps

December 3, 2020

Third-party SaaS apps (and extensions) can significantly extend the functionality and capabilities of an organization’s public cloud environment, but they can also …

Spin Technology adds new security features to its SpinOne for Google Workspace and Office 365

November 19, 2020

Spin Technology announced the next generation of SpinOne, an AI-powered ransomware and backup solution for Google Workspace and Office 365. In the last year alone, 51 percent …

Holiday gifts getting smarter, but creepier when it comes to privacy and security

November 12, 2020

A Hamilton Beach Smart Coffee Maker that could eavesdrop, an Amazon Halo fitness tracker that measures the tone of your voice, and a robot-building kit that puts your kid’s …

Encryption-based threats grow by 260% in 2020

November 11, 2020

New Zscaler threat research reveals the emerging techniques and impacted industries behind a 260-percent spike in attacks using encrypted channels to bypass legacy security …

Google fixes two actively exploited Chrome zero-days (CVE-2020-16009, CVE-2020-16010)

November 4, 2020

For the third time in two weeks, Google has patched Chrome zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited in the wild: CVE-2020-16009 is present in the desktop …

Google discloses actively exploited Windows zero-day (CVE-2020-17087)

November 2, 2020

Google researchers have made public a Windows kernel zero day vulnerability (CVE-2020-17087) that is being exploited in the wild in tandem with a Google Chrome flaw …