Security News

Google Rolling Out Privacy Sandbox Beta on Android 13 Devices
2023-02-15 07:55

Google announced on Tuesday that it's officially rolling out Privacy Sandbox on Android in beta to eligible mobile devices running Android 13. "The Privacy Sandbox Beta provides new APIs that are designed with privacy at the core, and don't use identifiers that can track your activity across apps and websites," the search and advertising giant said.

Google lets a few Android devices into its Privacy Sandbox
2023-02-14 17:00

Google on Tuesday began rolling out a beta test of its Privacy Sandbox software for a small portion of Android 13 devices to learn how its purportedly privacy-protecting ad tech actually performs. Google began working on its Privacy Sandbox in 2019 and its Android iteration surfaced a year ago.

3 Lifehacks While Analyzing Orcus RAT in a Malware Sandbox
2023-01-27 10:55

Orcus RAT is a type of malicious software program that enables remote access and control of computers and networks. There are several lifehacks that you should pay attention to while performing the analysis of Orcus RAT. Today we investigate the.

Homeland Security, CISA builds AI-based cybersecurity analytics sandbox
2023-01-10 01:00

Two of the US government's leading security agencies are building a machine learning-based analytics environment to defend against rapidly evolving threats and create more resilient infrastructures for both government entities and private organizations. The Department of Homeland Security - in particular its Science and Technology Directorate research arm - and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency picture a multicloud collaborative sandbox that will become a training ground for government boffins to test analytic methods and technologies that rely heavily on artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.

Google to Roll Out Privacy Sandbox Beta on Android 13 by Early 2023
2022-11-16 05:24

Internet behemoth Google on Tuesday said it plans to roll out Privacy Sandbox for Android in beta to mobile devices running Android 13 starting early next year. "The Privacy Sandbox Beta will be available for ad tech and app developers who wish to test the ads-related APIs as part of their solutions," the company said.

5 use cases with a malware sandbox
2022-11-16 04:00

Today we will discuss five use cases of how a malware sandbox can help, so you can avoid any threats and find out the truth behind insidious files. A malware sandbox is a tool for suspicious programs' execution in the virtual environment, safe for your computer.

Google to roll out Privacy Sandbox on Android 13 starting early 2023
2022-11-15 18:00

Google announced today that they will begin rolling out the Privacy Sandbox system on a limited number of Android 13 devices starting in early 2023. The Privacy Sandbox is a set of technologies Google introduced in February this year, aiming to limit the tracking of users while still providing advertisers with viable performance-measurement options.

Not All Sandboxes Are for Children: How to Secure Your SaaS Sandbox
2022-10-20 11:20

Many organizations use a Sandbox for their SaaS apps - to test changes without disrupting the production SaaS app or even to connect new apps. The same security concepts are used when creating a SaaS Sandbox - it duplicates the main instance of SaaS including its data.

Critical VM2 flaw lets attackers run code outside the sandbox
2022-10-11 15:05

Researchers are warning of a critical remote code execution flaw in 'vm2', a JavaScript sandbox library downloaded over 16 million times per month via the NPM package repository. The vm2 vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-36067 and received a severity rating of 10.0, the maximum score in the CVSS system, as it could allow attackers to escape the sandbox environment and run commands on a host system.

Researchers Detail Critical RCE Flaw Reported in Popular vm2 JavaScript Sandbox
2022-10-11 11:28

A now-patched security flaw in the vm2 JavaScript sandbox module could be abused by a remote adversary to break out of security barriers and perform arbitrary operations on the underlying machine. "A threat actor can bypass the sandbox protections to gain remote code execution rights on the host running the sandbox," GitHub said in an advisory published on September 28, 2022.