One of the two issues that I identified in yesterday’s review of Opera’s NotScripts extension was that it has not been updated for a long period of time. A script by the same name for Google Chrome, NotScript for Chrome, has also not been updated for almost a year now. Ghacks reader Vineeth just sent [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
27 Out of 100 Chrome Extensions Insecure
Security researchers Nicholas Carlini, Adrienne Porter Felt, and Prateek Saxena reviewed 50 popular and 50 random Chrome extensions from the official Chrome Web Store for security vulnerabilities and discovered that 27 of the 100 extensions “leak all of their privileges to a web or WiFi attacker”. These 27 extensions account for a total of 51 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Google Chrome Sandbox Hacked
Two of the core reasons for installing Google Chrome are the browser’s speed and security. Especially the latter with its sandboxing approach proved to be very effective against many common attack forms and hacking attempts. Even the security experts at the Pwn2Own conference were not able to penetrate Chrome’s defense system, most did not even [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 9
Google Chrome Stable Security Update to Version 11
Google has just updated the Google Chrome Stable channel to version 11. This is a landmark considering that the stable branch of the browser is now sharing the “highest-browser-version-crown” with Opera Software’s Opera browser. More important than the version bump to 11 are the security updates that have been implemented in the browser. A total [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Google Chrome Stable Security Update April 2011
Google has just released an update for the Google Chrome stable channel that updates the version of the web browser to 10.0.658.205 for all supported operating systems (which means Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux and Chrome Frame). The release is a security update that fixes vulnerabilities in all versions of the web browser. Most notably, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
Google Chrome Stable Security And Feature Update
The Google chrome development team has released Chrome Stable 10.0.648.127 for the supported operating systems Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh. The new version fixes several, or shall we say many, security issues. The release notes list a total of 25 different security related issues that have been fixed in Google Chrome Stable. 15 of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Google Chrome Stable Updated, Security Release
Google has just updated the stable version of their Google Chrome web browser. The release contains both feature additions and security fixes. The security fixes alone make it a recommended update for all Google Chrome stable users. A total of nine security vulnerabilities have been fixed in Google Chrome 9.0.597.84 of which one received a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
SaferChrome Protects Chrome Users Against Man In The Middle Attacks, Improves Security
Internet users who connect to the Internet out of a computer network have to be very careful about the data they send and receive, and how they do that. The Firefox add-on Firesheep was definitely not the first program to show how easy it is to record data from other users of the network but [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Chrome Stable Updated, Security Fixes
Yesterday Google released a new Google Chrome stable version bringing the version to 8.0.552.237 on all platforms. The release fixes several security vulnerabilities which makes it a mandatory update for all Chrome users. The Chrome blog lists 16 different vulnerabilities that have been fixed in the new version of which one received the highest rating [...]