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A new campaign of malicious photo apps on Google Play floods Android devices with random ads instead of functioning as advertised. One of the hallmarks of the app is that once it's downloaded, it plays "Hide and seek" with the device, with the icon disappearing from the home screen, forcing users to go into the Settings menu to find the app if they want to see if it's been installed or open it.
With this announcement, InfluxDB Cloud is now live on all three major cloud platforms - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. InfluxDB Cloud now available on all major cloud platforms.
By hosting phishing pages at a legitimate cloud service, cybercriminals try to avoid arousing suspicion, says Check Point Research. The idea is that such phishing pages will better elude detection by security products and more easily ensnare unsuspecting victims.
Google Cloud announced 11 new G Suite security features on Tuesday. The Google Cloud upgrades optimize security across G Suite's key products: Gmail, Meet, and Chat.
The Android-powered Google Pixel line of phones received a very important updated feature dedicated to user's personal safety. Learn how to use the Safety Check feature.
Google this week announced Assured Workloads for Government, a new Google Cloud service meant to address some of the unique challenges faced by government organizations adopting cloud technologies. Currently available in private beta, Assured Workloads for Government seeks to simplify the process of configuring applications for compliance, while also ensuring compatibility between commercial and government cloud.
Google on Tuesday unveiled the first product in its Google Cloud Confidential Computing portfolio: Confidential VMs. Currently in beta for Google Compute Engine, Confidential VMs are designed to help organizations, particularly ones in regulated industries, protect sensitive data by providing memory encryption capabilities that can be leveraged to isolate cloud workloads. Confidential VMs leverage the Secure Encrypted Virtualization feature in 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors to ensure that sensitive data remains encrypted at all times, including while it's used, queried or indexed.
Confidential computing encrypts data in use as it's being processed and keeps that data encrypted in memory and elsewhere outside the CPU. Google Cloud just launched a new technology that encrypts data while it's being processed: Confidential computing, which also keeps data encrypted in memory, as well as outside the central processing unit. Google Cloud users can now control the confidentiality of their data.
Mozilla is the latest browser maker to have announced updated policies that would reduce the lifetime of TLS certificates. Currently, SSL/TLS certificates have a maximum lifespan of 825 days in an attempt to ensure better protection of HTTPS connections, browser makers such as Apple, Google and Mozilla are looking into reducing that period to 398 days.
Google will soon prohibit ads on its platform that promote stalkerware products and services - but the tech giant's ban comes with a catch that some security experts worry will render it ineffective. Google said that its ban on stalkerware ads will not extend to private investigation services or services designed for parents to track or monitor their underage children - which some are condemning as a big loophole for surveillanceware companies.