Google expands bug bounty program to cover GitHub and other open source projects
Additions cover Google APIs, Golang, Angular, Fuchsi
Attackers Now Actively Use Silver Offensive Security Framework
Microsoft security experts believe that the Silver framework is actively used by cyberattackers to carry out intrusion campaigns. Team Cymru observed a steady increase in detected Silver samples over Q1 of 2022 and shared some case studies. Silver can be used to compromise a target, deploy one or more implants within different endpoints or servers […]
How Organizations Can Implement A Successful Multicloud Strategy
89% of organizations surveyed in the Flexera State of the Cloud Report 2022 report having a multicloud strategy. Although this highlights a massive deployment of multicloud, it remains difficult to figure out how to implement a successful multicloud strategy. In order to develop a good multicloud strategy, several steps have to be followed: Successful multicloud […]
R&D Tax Credit Can Help SMEs Employ Workers made Redundant By Large Companies
Small and medium-sized enterprises can tap into the 32,000 technology industry workers laid off last year by companies such as Tesla, Coinbase, TikTok, Twitter. SMBs can benefit from the government’s incentives to support innovation, including the Research and Development Tax Credit, also known as R&D. Congress established R&D in the early 1980s particularly to encourage […]
Google’s New Bug Bounty Program Focuses On Open-Source bugs
Google has launched a new bug bounty program that will focus on open-source software. As attacks on the open-source supply chain leaped 650% year-over-year in 2021 compared to the previous year, the new program will address the steep increase in supply chain compromises. The new program encourages bug hunters to look for issues in up-to-date […]
Amazon And Google Criticize Microsoft Over Cloud Computing Changes
Microsoft’s cloud computing changes, according to Amazon and Google, restrict competition and discourage customers from switching to competing cloud service providers. The criticism came shortly after Microsoft announced a new revised distribution agreement that allows customers to use their licenses with any European cloud provider that provides services for their own data centers, but excludes […]
Smaller EU Telcos Kick Against Network Fees Aimed At Big Firms
A group of small telecoms operators known as MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) Europe have said that the proposal by EU regulators to make Google, Meta, and Netflix bear some costs of the bloc’s telecoms network would alter the market and harm competition. MVNO participants include Comcast’s pay-TV company Sky, which has its own mobile […]
Google Refuses To Approve Truth Social for Play Store
According to a Google spokesperson, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Android app on the social media platform Truth Social has yet to be endorsed for distribution in the Google Play Store. This is because there is not enough moderation to ban content such as threats and calls for violence. With Android users downloading from the […]
Cyber Security Today, August 31, 2022 – Another email job scam, and how to celebrate International Women in Cyber Day
This episode reports on how a victim fell for an IT job scam, the Canadian government is being sued for negligence in a revenue department hack, watch for fake web site
Musk Urges Twitter To Scrap Deal After Whistleblower Claims
Elon Musk has reiterated his demand to stop the $44 billion Twitter purchase in a letter. This time, the billionaire referenced the latest assertions made by a former Twitter security head of Twitter to walk away from the deal. Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, claimed in a whistleblower claim last week that Twitter […]
