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Blue Hexagon offers agentless cloud-native AI security at runtime for Google Cloud. "With the rise of cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service driving rapid enterprise workload migration to the cloud, new challenges with security of cloud compute and network are ever emerging," said Nayeem Islam, CEO and Co-founder, Blue Hexagon.
Versa Networks announced its integration with Google Cloud Network Connectivity Center, allowing for secure and reliable connectivity to cloud workloads and on-premises resources in an automated, dynamic approach that reduces total costs of ownership. The integration between Versa SASE and Google Cloud represents continued development in security, SD-WAN, bandwidth management, and high availability differentiation and innovation to deliver the most consistent and high-performing user experience for secure access to applications anywhere in the world.
A fake version of the popular remote desktop application AnyDesk, pushed via ads appearing in Google search results, served up a trojanized version of the program. The campaign even bested AnyDesk's own ad campaign on Google - ranking higher in its paid results.
Google says the latest Google Chrome release comes with a significant performance boost due to newly added improvements to the open-source V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. Google Chrome 91, which started rolling out earlier this week, is executing JavaScript code 23% faster with the inclusion of a new JavaScript compiler and the use of a new way to optimize the code's location in memory.
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday publicized the disruption of a "Clever" malvertising network targeting AnyDesk that delivered a weaponized installer of the remote desktop software via rogue Google ads that appeared in the search engine results pages. AnyDesk's remote desktop access solution has been downloaded by more than 300 million users worldwide, according to the company's website.
A team of security researchers from Google has demonstrated yet another variant of the Rowhammer vulnerability that targets increasingly smaller DRAM chips to bypass all current mitigations, making it a persistent threat to chip security. Dubbed "Half-Double," the new hammering technique hinges on the weak coupling between two memory rows that are not immediately adjacent to each other but one row removed in an attempt to tamper with data stored in memory and attack a system.
Google has added a new batch of Chrome Actions for early testing in the latest Google Chrome web browser releases before the feature's worldwide rollout later this year. Chrome Actions is a recently introduced experimental Chrome feature that allows you to type in a command, causing an action to be displayed inline in the browser's address bar search results.
A team of researchers from Google has identified a new Rowhammer attack technique that works against recent generations of dynamic random-access memory chips. The new attack method disclosed this week by Google, which researchers have dubbed "Half-Double," shows that the effects of Rowhammer can extend beyond immediate neighbors, thus bypassing some of the existing defenses.
Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 91 to the stable channel. The latest update patches a total of 32 vulnerabilities.
Google has released Chrome 91 today, May 25th, 2021, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes security improvements, the ability to copy and paste files into web pages, and new developer features. Chrome 91 fixes 32 security vulnerabilities, with eight being marked as 'High' severity.