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DuckDuckGo downgraded Russian state media in search results

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMarch 16, 2022

The founder and head of DuckDuckGo, Gabriel Weinberg, said that the search engine will lower Russian media and sites that spread “Russian propaganda” in search results. Some were dissatisfied with this decision of the DuckDuckGo management, which has always

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Google Offers up to $91,000 for Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyFebruary 16, 2022

Google has almost doubled its rewards for vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and kCTF. The reward can now be up to $91,337. In November last year, Google already increased the size of payments: then the company tripled rewards

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Google analysts noticed that software vendors began to fix 0-day vulnerabilities faster

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyFebruary 15, 2022

Google Project Zero specialists presented a report according to which software vendors began to fix 0-day vulnerabilities faster. For example, last year organizations needed less time than in previous years to fix 0-day vulnerabilities discovered by experts. On average,

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Apache Log4j Vulnerability explained by Google

ByStephanie AdlamDecember 21, 2021

On December 17th, 2021 in their blog Google Open Source Insights Team explained the whole situation they observed concerning Apache Log4j Vulnerability. They described the widespread vulnerability and current progress in fixing the open source JVM ecosystem. Also Team shared

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Log4j vulnerability threatens 35,000 Java packages

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyDecember 20, 2021

Google scanned Maven Central, the largest Java repository to date, and found that the Log4j vulnerability threatened 35,863 Java packages. The packages are vulnerable to either the original Log4Shell exploit (CVE-2021-44228) or the second RCE problem discovered after the

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Google Stops Glupteba Botnet and Sues Two Russians

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyDecember 8, 2021

Google representatives said that they stopped the work of the Glupteba botnet: they deleted the accounts, and also disabled the servers and domains associated with it. In addition, the company has filed a lawsuit against the Russians Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov,

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Google developers told how they will implement Manifest V3

ByVladimir KrasnogolovySeptember 27, 2021

This week, Google developers shared their plans to bring the infamous Manifest V3 to full functionality, which became available in the beta version of Chrome 88. Let me remind you that for the first time talks about Manifest V3 started in 2018. Then the developers of Google

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Ukrainian fighters against pirates asked Google to block 127.0.0.1

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyAugust 10, 2021

The TorrentFreak media reports that Vindex, Ukrainian fighters against pirates, representing the interests of TRC Ukraine, sent Google a strange request to remove content from search results. One of the addresses violating the rights of TRC Ukraine pointed to 127.0.0.1, that

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Google fired dozens of employees for data abuse

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyAugust 5, 2021

The Vice Motherboard has obtained internal Google documents stating that the company has fired dozens of employees for data abuse. The documents describe investigations into cases where Google employees used their positions to steal, leak, or abuse data they had access to.