Google Chrome users targeted by tech support scammers
Google Chrome users, beware: tech support scammers are misusing helpful browser features to impersonate Microsoft and to bombard users users with pop-ups. In the first …
Researchers pinpoint best times for delivering security messages
When is the best time to deliver a security message? A group of researchers from Brigham Young University has been tracking users’ neural activity while they are using a …
Chrome vulnerability lets attackers steal movies from streaming services
A significant security vulnerability in Google technology that is supposed to protect videos streamed via Google Chrome has been discovered by researchers from the Ben-Gurion …
Bug in Chrome’s PDF reader allows arbitrary code execution
Vulnerabilities in software often arise from faulty implementations of elements developed by other code writers. Take for example CVE-2016-1681, the heap-based buffer overflow …
Google Chrome update includes 15 security fixes
Google has released Chrome 51.0.2704.79 to address multiple vulnerabilities for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote …
Malicious Chrome update actively targeting Android users
A fake malicious Chrome update is being actively pushed onto Android users, saddling them with information-stealing malware that can be uninstalled only by restoring the …
Fake Chrome LastPass extension leads to unwanted installs
A fake LastPass extension has been found lurking on the Chrome Web Store, offering promises of free and easy password management, but instead taking users for a ride involving …
Chrome Web Store developers have to improve user data transparency
Google has announced that it’s modifying the User Data Policy for the Chrome Web Store, and developers have three months to make the needed changes if they don’t …
Hack Chromebook in guest mode, get $100,000
Google has once again upped the ante for bug hunters concentrating on Chrome, and is now offering $100,000 to anyone capable of achieving a compromise of a Chromebook or …
Malicious Chrome extensions ransack Steam users’ inventory
Steam users are being targeted by a scammer that’s offering apparently helpful Chrome extensions for free, but is actually using them to steal items from victims’ …
Vonteera adware blocks AVs, can install uninstallable Chrome extensions
The Vonteera adware family has been around for quite some time, but it is now slowly starting to cross the line between unwanted, potentially malicious software to outright …
Analytics services are tracking users via Chrome extensions
It’s quite possible that, despite your belief that the Google Chrome is the safest browser there is and your use of extensions that prevent tracking, your online …
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