Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme
In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s […]
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Facebook bug turns on iPhone camera in the background
A recent update to the Facebook’s iOS app introduced a bug that had some users worried The post Facebook bug turns on […]
GWP-ASan: Sampling heap memory error detection in-the-wild
Posted by Vlad Tsyrklevich, Dynamic Tools TeamMemory safety errors, like use-after-frees and out-of-bounds reads/writes, are a leading source of vulnerabilities in C/C++ […]
OpenTitan – open sourcing transparent, trustworthy, and secure silicon
Posted by Royal Hansen, Vice President, Google and Dominic Rizzo, OpenTitan Lead, Google Cloud Security begins with secure infrastructure. To have higher confidence […]
The App Defense Alliance: Bringing the security industry together to fight bad apps
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP, Android Security & Privacy Fighting against bad actors in the ecosystem is a top priority for Google, […]
How Google adopted BeyondCorp: Part 4 (services)
Posted by Guilherme Gonçalves, Site Reliability Engineer and Kyle O’Malley, Security Engineer IntroThis is the final post in a series of four, in […]
Protecting against code reuse in the Linux kernel with Shadow Call Stack
Posted by Sami Tolvanen, Staff Software Engineer, Android Security & Privacy Team The Linux kernel is responsible for enforcing much of Android’s […]
Apple to fix Siri bug that exposed parts of encrypted emails
Apple may care about your privacy but that doesn’t mean it gets it right all the time, especially when it comes to […]
Sextortionist whisks away sex tapes using just a phone number
The SIM-swap victim knew he was in trouble when he got a 3:30 a.m. message about his phone service being cut off. […]
Nvidia patches graphics products and GeForce Experience update tool
The update fixes 11 mainly high-severity security flaws in Windows and GeForce graphics card drivers, including three in the program used to […]