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Google this week announced an extended support period for Android 11 and later devices launching with Qualcomm System-on-Chip models. Currently, devices receive support for a period of three years, which includes security patches, but moving forth users will enjoy one additional year of operating system and security updates.
CloudPassage announced the addition of Google Cloud Platform support for Halo Cloud Secure, the cloud security posture management service of the Halo cloud security platform. With this release, Halo Cloud Secure automatically discovers and inventories cloud assets and resources hosted on GCP, determines their security posture, alerts users to misconfigurations and exposures, and provides best-practice remediation advice.
Google and Qualcomm have linked arms to extend the lifecycle of new Android devices, meaning future phones could receive as many as three major operating system updates provided they're running the latest Snapdragon silicon. "For each SoC model, the SoC manufacturers now needed to create multiple combinations of vendor implementations to support OEMs who would use that chipset to launch new devices and deploy OS upgrades on previously launched devices," said Google's Android Developers Blog.
CloudKnox Security extended support for serverless functions on Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Together, the support for serverless functions and ServiceNow integration underscore CloudKnox's market lead with the most comprehensive support offering in the cloud infrastructure entitlement management segment.
Tufin announced that Tufin SecureCloud now supports the Google Cloud Platform, allowing customers to use SecureCloud to define and monitor compliance with security guardrails. As more organizations adopt a multi-cloud strategy, Tufin customers can now operate secured applications across the three leading cloud providers - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Security policy management firm Tufin announced this week that the SecureCloud component of the Tufin Orchestration Suite now supports the Google Cloud Platform. Adding support for Google Cloud now allows Tufin customers to secure applications across the three leading cloud providers - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
A Mozilla Foundation update to the Firefox web browser, released Tuesday, tackles one critical vulnerability and a handful of high-severity bugs. The specific critical bug in Firefox was also highlighted earlier this month in Google's Chrome browser security update, where it was rated as a high-severity flaw.
The global Google services outage yesterday was caused by the company's Identity Management System failing after a bug restricted its storage space. According to a tweet and a Google status report, the outage was caused by the company's automated quota management system reducing the amount of storage available to Google's authentication system.
Google makes its money from being the world's middle man for online advertising. The more ambitious can install software like PiHole, which sits on your home network and does the same for all traffic, if you're comfortable with setting up servers and tinkering with DNS. The more technical you are, the more options you get - although why no mainstream home router makers have put ad and track filtering in their products is slightly mystifying.
Google users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to access Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Calendar, and other Google services. According to DownDetector and user reports, Google services are currently experiencing an outage in the U.S, Europe, and other parts of the world.