Teen exploits three 0-days to hack Chrome, earns $60K from Google
The end of this year’s editions of the Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests has been marked by another Chrome hack, executed by a teenage security researcher that goes by the …
Chrome already pwned twice at CanSecWest
The annual CanSecWest conference opened on Wednesday in Vancouver, and before the first session even started, Google’s Chrome was exploited successfully not once, but …
Protection against malicious URLs and attachments
Invincea announced the availability of a greatly expanded product suite to address emerging vectors of attacks against users. Building off of its approach to breach prevention …
Microsoft says Google also bypassed IE’s privacy settings
Following the discovery that Google and other online advertising companies are bypassing Safari’s default “no tracking” settings with specific code inserted …
Chrome to stop using online checks to spot revoked certificates
Future versions of Google’s Chrome browser will no longer use online revocation checks to verify whether the HTTPS site the user wants to visit possesses a valid …
Public beta of Flash Player sandbox for Firefox is out
A little over a year after the implementation of a Flash Player sandbox into Google Chrome, Adobe has announced the release of a public beta of its new Flash Player sandbox …
Bogus “browser update” pages deliver malware
Fake “browser update” pages are currently being used to deliver malware and redirect users to survey pages, warns GFI. Their malware researchers have recently …
Pwn2Own 2012: Changed rules, bigger prizes, no more mobile hacks
Pwn2Own, one of the most anticipated hacking contests that takes place each year at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, is set to unfold under …
Firefox 9 closes security holes
Mozilla released Firefox 9 that fixes several security and stability issues. Crash when plugin removes itself on Mac OS X FireBreath developer Richard Bateman reported a crash …
Silent updating for Internet Explorer
Microsoft announced that in 2012 Internet Explorer will be updated “silently” to its newest possible version. This new silent update will eliminate the pop-up …
Chrome is the most secure browser, claims new study
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer does a better job protecting systems from attackers who already have gained some degree of access than Mozilla’s Firefox, and …
Can rogue web browsers make a comeback?
Before the survey scams, there were rogue web browsers. They were very popular in 2006 and 2007, when old-school ad vendors were at their peak. The majority of such browsers …