Chrome

Chrome will start labeling some HTTP sites as non-secure

September 9, 2016

Slowly but relentlessly, Google is pushing website owners to deploy HTTPS – or get left behind. The latest announced push is scheduled for January 2017, when Chrome 56 …

Google Chrome impersonator Trojan doing rounds

August 31, 2016

If you’re a Google Chrome user, and suddenly your browser looks a bit off and shows you pages that you would never visit ordinarily, you’ve probably been hit with …

Google Chrome users targeted by tech support scammers

August 29, 2016

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

August 19, 2016

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

June 27, 2016

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

June 9, 2016

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

June 3, 2016

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

May 3, 2016

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

April 28, 2016

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

April 18, 2016

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

March 15, 2016

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

January 19, 2016

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’ …