The 754 million packets-per-second peak was part of a four-day attack involving more than 316,000 sending addresses. …read more Source:: DarkReading

New Google Ads policy that bans stalkerware enters into effect on August 11. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The group behind Evilnum malware, which continues to target financial institutions, appears to be testing new techniques. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The new lightweight and royalty-free AVIF image format is coming to web browsers. Work is almost complete on adding AVIF support to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. From a report: The new image format is considered one of the lightest and most optimized image compression formats, and has already gained praise from companies such as…

However, the recovery may be short-lived, the research firms warned, as the pandemic-spurred demand for PCs levels off. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Application-based attacks that use the passwordless “log in with…” feature common to cloud services are on the rise. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Authors of the malware, which signs up mobile users for premium services, are repeatedly finding ways to bypass app review checks. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Day traders on viral video app TikTok are encouraging people to speculate on a joke cryptocurrency called Dogecoin. Based on an old Internet meme — an overly sincere and whimsically grammar-challenged Shiba Inu dog — the digital coin was developed as a Bitcoin-spinoff in 2013, after which it quickly rose to prominence as a gag….

Hackers hit honeypots hours after CISO downplays risk, proof-of-concept exploit code emerges VIdeo This week Citrix tried to reassure everyone the 11 security flaws it just patched in its network perimeter products weren’t all that bad. Well, we hope they’re right because someone’s scanning the internet looking for vulnerable installations.… …read more Source:: Register

Google’s campus security system subjected Black and Latinx workers to bias and prompted complaints to management, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation, leading the company to scrap a key part of the approach. From a report: The internet giant encouraged employees to check colleagues’ ID badges on campus, and asked security…