In a recent blog post, Drew Rowny, Google’s Product Lead, Messages, has shared the tech giant’s future plans. As revealed, Google is rolling out the end-to-end encryption feature to its Messages app. The Messages by Google is one of the popular Android apps among users for general communication. It is also often available as the default pre-installed messaging app in the latest Android phones. However, despite being popular, it still lagged behind other instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal as it lacks key features such as end-to-end encryption. Nonetheless, Google now gears up...

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Facebook released its internally-developed Pysa security tool. Based on the open-source code of Pyre project, Facebook designed Pysa as a static code analyzer. The tool specifically looks for security bugs, unlike most other analyzers. Facebook decided to opensource the tool after witnessing its success in security Instagram. The tech giant’s internal team used the tool for identifying various bugs. Sharing the details of the tool in a post, Facebook stated,     Attribution link:...

One More Chrome Zero-Day Fixed Two weeks after addressing a zero-day, Google disclosed and addressed one more bug in Chrome under active attack. The bug, CVE-2020-16009, caught the attention of Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero. As disclosed, the new zero-day bug affects the V8 component of the Chrome browser. Although, Google also fixed another zero-day flaw in the V8 component earlier this year. But that was a type confusion flaw, while for the recent bug, Google has described it as inappropriate implementation. As per their...

The free Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network run by the Undernet is continuing to be assaulted by distributed denial-of-service attacks, leading some of the companies that operate the group’s servers to terminate their hosting agreements.In an updated notice posted Thursday on its Web site, the Undernet’s administrators said it’s still uncertain when they will be able to restore the IRC network to full working order. The networks of the Internet service providers that host Undernet servers in the U.S. and Europe “have been subjected to continued denial-of-service attacks,” the...

President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 result has made Twitter  a busy place in the past 24 hours, including some tweets that have publicly wished — some subtly and others more directly — that he die from the disease caused by coronavirus.Twitter put out a reminder to folks that it doesn’t allow tweets that wish or hope for death or serious bodily harm or fatal disease against anyone. Tweets that violate this policy will need to be removed, Twitter said Friday. However, it also clarified that this does not automatically mean suspension. Several news outlets...