Category: Cyber Security

Mar 15, 2024NewsroomBrowser Security / Phishing Attack Google on Thursday announced an enhanced version of Safe Browsing to provide real-time, privacy-preserving URL protection and safeguard users from visiting potentially malicious sites. “The Standard protection mode for Chrome on desktop and iOS will check sites against Google’s server-side list of known bad sites in real-time,” Google’s […]

Researchers at IBM and VU Amsterdam have developed a new attack that exploits speculative execution mechanisms in modern computer processors to bypass checks in operating systems against what are known as race conditions. The attack leverages a vulnerability (CVE-2024-2193) that the researchers found affecting Intel, AMD, ARM, and IBM processors. It works against any operating […]

When traveling for work, you’d think that bringing your work laptop around and using it like normal would be harmless. However, using your company-issued machine while traveling may pose some unexpected blockers. For example, connecting to an unprotected public Wi-Fi network in a coffee shop may put sensitive company data at risk. If you’re on […]

This blog post will discover how you can automate DNS policy management with Tags.To streamline DNS policy management for roaming computers, categorize them using tags. By assigning a standard tag to a collection of roaming computers, they can be collectively addressed as a single entity during policy configuration. This approach is recommended for deployments with […]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) disclosed a cyber incident on Friday after unknown attackers breached 11 IMF email accounts earlier this year. This international financial institution, funded by 190 member countries, is also a major United Nations financial agency headquartered in Washington, D.C. According to a press release published today, the IMF detected the incident […]

Mar 15, 2024NewsroomHardware Security / Data Protection A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution. Dubbed GhostRace (CVE-2024-2193), it is a variation of the transient execution CPU vulnerability known as Spectre v1 (CVE-2017-5753). The approach combines speculative execution and race conditions. “All the common synchronization […]

In late 2023, I wrote an article comparing how well ChatGPT and Google Bard handle writing security policies. Given that ChatGPT 4.0 has been available as a paid version, called ChatGPT Plus, for some time now, and Google recently rebranded Google Bard as Gemini (with Gemini Advanced available as paid offering), it’s a good time to compare […]