Google paid $12 million in bug bounties to security researchers
Google last year paid its highest bug bounty ever through the Vulnerability Reward Program for a critical exploit chain report that the company valued at…
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NSA shares guidance on how to secure your home network
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has issued guidance to help remote workers secure their home networks and defend their devices from attacks. The guide…
Hackers use fake ChatGPT apps to push Windows, Android malware
Threat actors are exploiting the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to distribute malware for Windows and Android, or direct unsuspecting vitims to phishing pages. ChatGPT gained…
Google investigates Gmail IMAP sync issues affecting Outlook users
Google is investigating a service outage affecting Gmail users worldwide that causes issues when syncing emails with Microsoft servers via the Internet Message Access Protocol…
New S1deload Stealer malware hijacks Youtube, Facebook accounts
An ongoing malware campaign targets YouTube and Facebook users, infecting their computers with a new information stealer that will hijack their social media accounts and…
VMware warns admins of critical Carbon Black App Control flaw
VMware has released a critical security upgrade to address a critical injection vulnerability that impacts several versions of Carbon Black App Control for Windows. The…
Google will boost Android security through firmware hardening
Google has started working to harden the security of Android at the firmware level, a component of the software stack that interacts directly with the…
Microsoft to test Bing Chat tones, allows longer chat sessions
Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries.…
Exploit released for critical Fortinet RCE flaws, patch now
Security researchers have released a proof-of-concept exploit for a critical-severity vulnerability (CVE-2022-39952) in Fortinet’s FortiNAC network access control suite. Fortinet disclosed the security issue on February 16 and…
Windows 11 KB5022905 preview update released with 13 changes
Microsoft has released the February 2023 optional cumulative updates for all editions of Windows 11 22H2 and all supported Windows 10 versions. The KB5022905 Windows 11…
Activision confirms data breach exposing employee and game info
Activision has confirmed that it suffered a data breach in early December 2022 after hackers gained access to the company’s internal systems by tricking an…
Emergency VMware ESXi update fixes Windows Server 2022 VM boot issues
VMware has released a vSphere ESXi update that addresses a known issue causing some Windows Server 2022 virtual machines to no longer boot after installing…