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Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild since the start of the year. This latest flaw addressed in Google Chrome is the fifth this year, with three others discovered during the March 2024 Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver.
Google on Monday announced that it's simplifying the process of enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) for users with personal and Workspace accounts. Also called, 2-Step Verification (2SV), it...
Google is adding a new feature to Google Chrome that allows publishers to add video chapters to videos embedded on websites, similar to how chapters work on YouTube. Video chapters break a video into different sections, each with its own preview, helping viewers find and rewatch specific parts easily.
Google updates Google Security Operations and more with Gemini AI. Google is combining the security capabilities of information security company Mandiant and malware scanner VirusTotal with Gemini AI and Google's own user and device footprint in a new offering called Google Threat Intelligence. Available May 6 wherever Google Cloud Security is distributed, Google Threat Intelligence uses Gemini AI to get a top-down look at security data, competing with Microsoft's Copilot for Security.
A Google Workspace administrator may manage several settings that help reduce spam email issues for the entire organization. Google's changes may mean more email delivered to a user's Gmail spam folder than the inbox.
Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. Yesterday, BleepingComputer received multiple reports that reCaptcha stopped working in the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, with the issues also reported on Twitter and Reddit.
It is taking less time for organisations to detect attackers in their environment, a report by Mandiant Consulting, a part of Google Cloud, has found. Continued state-sponsored exploitation attacks: A Microsoft report found instances of nation-state cyber espionage rose last year.
Google has drastically increased the rewards bug hunters can get for reporting vulnerabilities in Android apps it develops and maintains. "We increased reward amounts by up to 10x in some categories," Google information security engineer Kristoffer Blasiak has pointed out.
Since 2013, the first Thursday in May is marked as World Password Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the need for using strong, unique passwords to secure out digital lives. As the FIDO Alliance noted today, World Password Day may soon need a rebrand: according to its most recent survey, 22% of respondents enabled passkeys on every account, and 61% of people familiar with passkeys say they are more convenient than passwords.
Google on Thursday announced that passkeys are being used by over 400 million Google accounts, authenticating users more than 1 billion times over the past two years. "Passkeys are easy to use and...