Chrome

Chrome bugs allow websites to listen in on your conversations

January 23, 2014

Several security flaws in the popular Google Chrome browser can be exploited to turn the computer into a surreptitious listening device, claims Israeli developer Tal Ater. As …

Ad-pushers buy Chrome add-ons, update them to inject ads

January 20, 2014

Google has a new problem: original add-on developers are being bought out by ad firms and their creations equipped with code serving ads to unsuspecting users. The practice …

Safari, Chrome and Samsung Galaxy S4 taken down in Mobile Pwn2Own

November 14, 2013

Results from the second annual Mobile Pwn2Own competition ending today at PacSec Applied Security Conference in Tokyo, Japan, are in: the successful compromises include …

Google tests new Chrome feature for thwarting rogue plugins

November 4, 2013

A new feature that has been added to Google Canary is set to help users remove changes effected by malware that switches their homepage or injects ads into the sites their …

Chrome plugin aims to thwart user profiling efforts

August 19, 2013

Inspired by a piece of fictional software described in Cory Doctorow’s book Little Brother, developer Ben West created a browser plugin that should, in theory, make it …

Chrome not the only browser that stores plain-text passwords

August 8, 2013

When choosing to import his Safari bookmarks and settings into Google’s Chrome browser, software developer Elliot Kember discovered that although it seemed like he could …

Chrome, Firefox users targeted with account-hijacking plugins

July 31, 2013

Hijacked social networking accounts can be monetized in a number of ways, so cyber crooks are always thinking up new ways of doing so, preferably without the user noticing. …

Internet Explorer best at malware and privacy protection

July 24, 2013

Back in May, NSS Labs shared the results of their testing of how successful popular Web browsers are in detecting malware, showing that the latest versions of Internet …

Google implements malware scan for submissions to Chrome Web Store

June 25, 2013

Late last week, Google has announced that submissions to the Chrome Web Store will, from now on, be checked for malware. Mimicking the Android Bouncer program incorporated …

Malicious browser extensions are hijacking Facebook accounts

May 13, 2013

Facebook users – especially those in Brazil – are being targeted with malicious browser extensions trying to hijack Facebook profiles, warns Microsoft. So far, …

Pwn2Own: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Java go down

March 7, 2013

The Pwn2Own competition is underway at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, and during the first day of competition Java, IE 10, Firefox and Chrome were successfully …

Rogue Chrome extension hijacks Facebook accounts

February 21, 2013

Chrome users, beware of an extension by the name of “Business Flash Player”. According to Bitdefender senior e-threat analyst Bogdan Botezatu, the link to download …