Chrome

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2017
Google Chrome will block code injection from third-party software within 14 months

Google announced the block of code injection from third-party applications into the Chrome browser. Developers have 14 months to update their code. Google continues to improve security of its product and services, the IT giant announced the for blocking third-party applications from injecting code into the Chrome browser. The decision of the company will have […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2017
Google introduces updates in Chrome to prevent unexpected redirects and unwanted content

Google presents changes to Google Chrome that aim to prevent users from being redirected to unexpected websites and unwanted content. Google is continuously working to improve the security of its product and service, last changes to Google Chrome aim to prevent users from being redirected to unexpected websites and unwanted content. It has been estimated by […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2017
Microsoft provides details of a code execution vulnerability in Chrome

Microsoft’s Offensive Security Research (OSR) team disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in the Chrome web browser. Microsoft’s Offensive Security Research (OSR) team has disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that was discovered by its experts. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-5121, was addressed by Google last month with the release of Chrome 61, but […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2017
Chrome will label Resources delivered via FTP as “Not Secure”

Google continues the ongoing effort to communicate the transport security status of a given page labeling resources delivered via FTP as “Not secure” in Chrome, Last week, Google announced that future versions of Chrome will label resources delivered via the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) as “Not secure.” The security improvement will be implemented starting with […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2017
CopyFish Extension for Chrome Stolen And Updated With Trojan Adware

Crooks recently hacked the popular Google Chrome extension Copyfish after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software. Trojan malware has been around for a long time. A user installs an application to accomplish one task, but behind the scenes, the application is performing a completely different task — usually unwanted. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2017
Chrome design flaw allows sites to record Audio/Video without indication

A developer has discovered a flaw in the Chrome browser that could be exploited to secretly Record Audio/Video without indication. The AOL developer Ran Bar-Zik discovered a disconcerting vulnerability in Google’s Chrome browser could be exploited by attackers to record audio or video without giving any visual notification or alert. “After getting the audio\video usage […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2016
Google Widevine DRM flaw allows to easily download videos streamed

A Google Widevine DRM flaw in the Chrome browser can be exploited to easily download videos streamed from websites such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. The flaw was discovered by researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and the Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Germany. According to the experts, the issue exists […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2016
A crafted PDF document can hack your Chrome PDF reader, Update Chrome now!

A security expert discovered that a crafted PDF document that includes an embedded JPG2000 image can trigger a buffer overflow in the Chrome PDF reader. The security expert Aleksandar Nikolic from the Cisco Talos group has discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability (CVE-2016-1681) in PDFium, which is the PDF reader component installed by default in Google Chrome […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2016
Google issued a new security update to fix flaws in Chrome 49

Google has issued a new security update for its Chrome 49 that patches a number of flaws, most of them discovered by external researchers. Google has updated Chrome 49 for all the available versions in order to patch several critical vulnerabilities, including the flaw discovered thanks its bounty program that were rewarded with dozen thousands of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2015
eFast browser deletes and replaces your Chrome Browser

Security researchers have documented the existence of a new strain of malware dubbed eFast browser that deletes and replaces the entire Chrome Browser. Security experts from Malwarebytes have analyzed a new strain of  malware that attempts to delete Chrome and replace it with a bogus version that allows attackers to hijack several file associations including HTML, […]