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Google buys cybersecurity company Mandiant for $5.4B

March 8, 2022 admin google, Security

Credit to Author: Charlotte Trueman| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:58:00 -0800

In a move to offer an end-to-end security operations suite from its cloud platform, Google has announced it will acquire cyberdefense and response company Mandiant for $5.4 billion, in a deal expected to close later this year.

The acquisition will complement Google Cloud’s existing security services and together, the companies will deliver a security operations suite as well as advisory services that help customers address critical security challenges and stay protected at every stage of the security lifecycle, Mandiant said in a press release.

The company recently announced a new Ransomware Defense Validation service for its SaaS-based XDR (extended detection and response) platform, Mandiant Advantage, to help enterprises gauge the ability of their security systems to guard against ransomware attacks.

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Google takes on Docs notification spammers

March 8, 2022 admin docs, documents, google, mail, privacy, slides, spam, spammers

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:31:05 +0000

We look at some fixes Google is releasing to combat a wave of spam made via notifications in Google Docs and other apps.

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Data breaches leave customers very shaky, report says

March 1, 2022 admin axway, brian pagano, Facebook, global survey, google, reports

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:36:47 +0000

Survey respondents care about their data. As they ask for more control over them, they want the companies housing them to secure them at all costs, too.

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Google and Microsoft accused of feeding smaller search engines spam ads

February 25, 2022 admin antitrust law, Bing, DuckDuckGo, gatekeeper search engine, google, microsoft, Security world

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:50:15 +0000

Adtech researchers believe that Google and Microsoft are hoarding the best ads and flooding rival search engines with spam ads.

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Microsoft: Slow MFA adoption presents “dangerous mismatch” in security

February 9, 2022 admin 2fa, Azure Active Directory, cyber signal, google, grzegorz milka, mfa, microsoft, multi-factor authentication, npm, Security world, Twitter, two-factor authentication

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:55:24 +0000

Microsoft says its corporate users are not using MFA, another layer of security that keeps accounts safe. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated problem.

Categories: Security world

Tags: 2fa Azure Active Directory Cyber Signal Google Grzegorz Milka mfa microsoft multi-factor authentication npm twitter two-factor authentication

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How to update Google Chrome if there is no “Update” button | Kaspersky official blog

February 7, 2022 admin Browsers, chrome, google, Tips, Updates, vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:08:05 +0000

How to update Google Chrome to urgently patch a vulnerability in the browser and what to do if you run into problems along the way.

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Start-up emerges with an ‘enterprise browser'

February 2, 2022 admin Browsers, google, internet, microsoft, Microsoft Edge, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 04:00:00 -0800

A start-up has emerged from stealth mode to announce what it describes as one of the world’s first enterprise-specific browsers, capable of governing how users interact with all SaaS and web applications.

The new Island web browser is based on the widely used Chromium open-source platform. Launched by a company with the same name, Island offers users a familiar online experience while governing what sites they can visit, the data they can view, and what files they can download or upload. Restrictions can be dialed up or down and can be specific to a user’s role in an organization.

For example, a user could be surfing the web with the standard Chrome, Edge, or Safari browsers, but if they try to access a site that’s off-limits based on the Island settings, they’d be blocked and told to use their secure browser. The Island browser can even stop an employee from taking screenshots of sensitive data, depending on the settings IT admins choose to implement.

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Test your outrage over Google's new Topics advertising system

February 2, 2022 admin Data Privacy, google, internet, privacy

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:00:00 -0800

Google sure has taken an awful lot of heat over its advertising practices lately.

But why, exactly? Today, I’d like to explore that. I’ve concocted a four-question quiz that’ll gauge your rage and help determine whether it’s aimed at the right source or perhaps misplaced. But first, we need to catch up on what exactly is happening right now and how we reached this point.

The whole recent Google advertising debacle started with the crumbling state of the digital cookie, y’see — the pressure for Google to move away from its age-old practice of using tiny (and rather tasty-sounding) tidbits of data provided by websites to see what sort of stuff you’re interested in and then show you ads that match those subjects.

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