Google joined the Patch Tuesday parade with a Chrome update that patches seven vulnerabilities in the browser. It also announced it was extending Safe Browsing protection to Chrome for Android.
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Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Chrome 45
Google promoted Chrome 45 to a stable release, patching 29 security vulnerabilities. It has also started pausing ads running Flash.
Facebook Awards $100,000 for New Class of Vulnerabilities and Detection Tool
Facebook doubles the payout of its Internet Defense Prize with a $100,000 award to a team of Georgia Tech researchers for a new class of browser-based memory-corruption vulnerabilities and a corresponding detection technique.
Legit APPS or PUA? Keep your eyes wide open!
Nowadays, our Personal Computers are able to perform a huge amount of tasks as we can find Applications for mostly everything one can imagine. Not to mention, we often have more than one App installed for the same kind of task. When does it become too much?
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Google Patches 43 Bugs in Chrome
A new version of Google Chrome is available, and it contains patches for 43 security vulnerabilities, many of them in the high-risk category. Two of the more serious vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome 44 are a pair of universal cross-site scripting bugs. One of the flaws is in blink, the Web layout engine in Chrome. The […]
Searches for Pirated Content Lead to Pain and Little Gain
People love to try and get something for nothing, especially on the Internet where there’s all kinds of things available for nothing. But a lot of those free things are illegal and attackers have become very adept at taking advantage of users’ desire for free episodes of Gilmore Girls or bonus Dragon Ball Z content. Researchers […]
Mozilla Bug Bounty Payouts Going Up
Mozilla announced that it has increased rewards for vulnerabilities submitted to its bug bounty program, and that for the first time it will pay for some bugs whose severity is rated moderate.
Privacy Proponents Rally In Favor of Tracking Protection in Firefox
Privacy advocates are calling on Mozilla to better deploy Tracking Protection, a technology that offers more stringent privacy and speeds up page loads by blocking requests to tracking domains, in its Firefox browser.
Address-Spoofing Bug Haunts Android Stock Browser
There’s an easily exploitable vulnerability in the Android stock browser that enables an attacker to spoof the URL in the address bar and force a victim to visit a malicious site while believing he is visiting a benign one. Security researcher Rafay Baloch discovered the vulnerability and developed the technique for exploiting it. The problem […]
Microsoft Edge Browser Seen as a Big Security Upgrade
For many years now, the browser has been the most dangerous piece of software on most users’ machines. Attackers love to target browsers and a remote code execution bug in a major browser is gold for them. The browser vendors have been making gradual changes to better protect users in recent years, and now Microsoft […]