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Google on Thursday announced a slew of improvements to its password manager service aimed at creating a more consistent look and feel across different platforms. Central to the changes is a "simplified and unified management experience that's the same in Chrome and Android settings," Ali Sarraf, Google Chrome product manager, said in a blog post. The updates are also expected to automatically

It didn't have to be this way: So far 2022's tranche of zero-days shows too many variants of previously patched security bugs, according Google Project Zero.

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  We took a week off for summer vacation but are back in the thick of security things now.  My first exposure to deepfake videos was when Jordan Peele worked with BuzzFeed News to produce this video of... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

One of the commissioners of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has renewed calls asking for Apple and Google to boot the popular video-sharing platform TikTok from their app stores citing "its pattern of surreptitious data practices." "It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing's apparently

deep.assign npm package 0.0.0-alpha.0 is vulnerable to Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution').

Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, gives us hope that surviving a ransomware attack is possible, so long as we apply preparation and intentionality to our defense posture.

Plus: Google issues fixes for Android bugs, and Cisco, Citrix, SAP, WordPress, and more issue major patches for enterprise systems.

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in TrueConf Server 4.3.7. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /admin/service/stop/. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

A new commercial spyware for governments, called Hermit, has spotted in the wild. It affects iOS and all Android versions. The post Hermit spyware is deployed with the help of a victim’s ISP appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week moved to add a Linux vulnerability dubbed PwnKit to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-4034 (CVSS score: 7.8), came to light in January 2022 and concerns a case of local privilege escalation in polkit's pkexec utility, which allows an