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Image: deepanker70 Google has released today a Chrome update to address three security bugs, including a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. Details about these attacks are not yet public, and we don’t know how this bug is being used against Chrome users. All we know is that the attacks were […] More
Special Feature Enterprises believe 5G will have a big impact on their businesses, but have security concerns, according to an Accenture survey. Accenture, which surveyed more than 2,600 business and technology decision makers in 12 industries, found that 79% of respondents thought 5G would have a significant impact on their organizations. And 57% said 5G […] More
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Director-General of Security Mike Burgess has praised the introduction of new powers such as those contained within Australia’s encryption legislation to help the spy agency combat the new battleground that technology has created. Delivering his first annual threat assessment since he took the helm of ASIO, Burgess said encrypted communications […] More
Hackers have found a bug in PayPal’s Google Pay integration and are now using it to buy products online and incur unauthorized charges to PayPal accounts. Since last Friday, users have reported seeing mysterious transactions pop up in their PayPal history as originating from their Google Pay account. Issues have been reported on numerous platforms, […] More
Palo Alto’s second quarter sales fell well short of expectations due to the incentives related to its next-gen products a year ago. The company’s reported second quarter revenue of $816.7 million, up 15% from a year ago, with a net loss of $73.7 million, or 75 cents a share. Non-GAAP second quarter earnings were $1.19 […] More
Internet routing is a screaming car wreck, as we know, and network operators should use the tools available to make it more secure and reliable. That’s been happening across Asia Pacific and Africa as operators roll out Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Route Origin Authorisations (ROAs) to certify the truth of routing messages transmitted by […] More
The FBI recently told us that we should use passphrases — a long string of words — instead of passwords made up of random numbers and characters. I could have told you that. Oh wait. I have. And so, more memorably, has cartoonist Randall Munroe. Password Strength cartoon by Randall Munroe, who got it exactly right. […] More
F5 Networks on Tuesday announced a series of new multi-cloud application security services, including a service that brings its Web Application Firewall (WAF) technology to the NGINX platform. The new services follow F5’s recent acquisition of NGINX, as well as its $1 billion acquisition of Shape Security. The acquisitions and new products have allowed F5 […] More
