Cardplanet Operator Extradited for Facilitating Credit Card Fraud
Russian national Aleksei Burkov is charged with wire fraud, access device fraud, and conspiracy to commit identity theft, among other crimes. ——– […]
Unreasonable Security Best Practices vs. Good Risk Management
Perfection is impossible, and pretending otherwise just makes things worse. Instead, make risk-based decisions. ——– Free High Security Email from Sigma
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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 […]
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++ […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]