Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2016
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 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 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
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, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2015
It seems incredible, but as already happened for Skype it is possible to crash the latest version of Google Chrome with a simple tiny URL. The flaw was discovered last week by the expert Andris Atteka who filed also a bug report. “Recently I reported a crash bug in Google Chrome (issue #533361). This issue reminded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2015
Starting from September 1st, 2015, Google will disable Flash’s ability to auto-play in its Chrome browser. What will change for advertisers? Google is going to disable Flash’s ability to auto-play in Chrome, the change will be introduced starting from September 1, 2015. Since this date, non-important Flash files will need explicit user’active to play in the browser. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2015
The use of malicious Chrome extensions in the criminal ecosystem, so Google decided to restrict the use of extensions not available on the Chrome Web Store. The use of malicious Chrome extensions in the criminal ecosystem, so Google decided to restrict the use of extensions not available on the Chrome Web Store. With new policies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2015
Google Launches Chrome 42 that deprecates the NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API)  due to the numerous problems it caused in the past. Google has released Chrome 42, a version that implements the important choice to exclude any plugin using the API called NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) to extend browser functionalities. The Netscape Plugin API is dated back 1990 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2015
UglyEmail Chrome extension could help Google users to discover which are the companies on the web that track their email messages. Even if the following names donât ring you a bell, companies like Yesware, Bananatag, and Streak are aware of your existence, to be more specific, they know when you open e-mail sent by one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2015
A developed has discovered that just visiting a page including an unicode string of 13 characters it is possible to crash Mac Chrome tab. While at last pwn2own hacking competition security experts have demonstrated that is quite easy to hack major browsers, another bad news is circulating online for Apple users using Chrome, a sequence of […]
