Google Paid Record $8.7 Million to Bug Hunters in 2021
Bug-bounty programs can sometimes say as much about an organization's willingness to work with external security researchers to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in their products as it does...
DDoS Attacks on a Tear in Q4 2021
Nearly half of all distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the fourth quarter of 2021 hit organizations in the US during an extremely active period for the disruptive attacks, new...
France Rules That Using Google Analytics Violates GDPR Data Protection Law
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
French data protection regulators on Thursday found the use of Google Analytics a breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws in the country,...
Hackers Planted Fake Digital Evidence on Devices of Indian Activists and Lawyers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A previously unknown hacking group has been linked to targeted attacks against human rights activists, human rights defenders, academics, and lawyers across India in an attempt to...
Apple Patches Actively Exploited WebKit Zero Day
A memory issue affects myriad iPhone, iPad and MacOS devices and allows attackers to execute arbitrary code after processing malicious web content.
Apple has patched yet another zero-day vulnerability, this...
Nearly 200 terrorist websites operate with impunity on the open web
A new Tech Against Terrorism report has found that global terrorist and violent extremist actors are running at least 198 websites on the surface web, laying bare the scale...
Meta files a first joint lawsuit against a Facebook phishing scam
Facebook and Instagram owner filed a joint lawsuit over phishing attacks on its social media networks. The lawsuit is the first joint complaint between Meta and a financial services...
AirTag misuse prompts Apple to announce updates
The move comes amid fears the tracking tool could have been used for stalking.Even though the device was originally meant to help users locate lost items, the button-sized gadget...
iOS jailbreak dev wins $2M bounty for finding critical Optimism bug
Developers from the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling project Optimism announced that a “critical bug” had been identified and subsequently patched earlier this month. The bug, which could have enabled...
Bunny and Qubit turns to DAO following $80-million bug exploit
The development team behind Bunny Finance and Qubit has decided to disband the protocol and turn it into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).In an official medium post published on Friday,...
