Researchers at firmware and hardware security company Eclypsium discovered that hundreds of motherboard models made by Taiwanese computer components giant Gigabyte include backdoor functionality that could pose a significant risk to organizations. The backdoor was discovered by Eclypsium based on behavior associated with the functionality, which triggered an alert in …

Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a record of over 7.4 million accounts in India in April 2023. This is the highest number of accounts banned by WhatsApp in a single month. The accounts were banned for violating WhatsApp’s terms of service, which include rules against spam, abuse, and hate speech. In addition …

Google is temporarily offering a triple reward to bug bounty hunters who report functional full-chain exploits that can escape the Chrome browser’s sandbox. The bonus is effective until December 1, 2023. A sandbox is a security feature that isolates code from the rest of the system, making it more difficult …