Chrome Security

100 Chrome Extensions Got Reviewed and 27 Had Vulnerabilities

After manually reviewing 100 Chrome extensions (the 50 most popular and another random 50) from the official directory for security vulnerabilities, a team of security experts including Adrienne Porter Felt a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, found 27 of them vulnerable to exploits. We reviewed 100 Chrome extensions and found that  27 of [...]

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Oops ! Someone Just Hacked Chrome !!

Chrome did win Pwn2Own this year and last year, but looks like someone got through finally, got access to the sandbox. The exploit shown in this video is one of the most sophisticated codes we have seen and created so far as it bypasses all security features including ASLR/DEP/Sandbox (and without exploiting a Windows kernel vulnerability), [...]

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SpyEye Trojan Now Targets Google Chrome #Security

Online marketing and  Trojan attacks have one thing in common. They tend to move towards corners of the web where more users are available for spreading their work. Chrome is getting more user base these days and bad guys have it on their hit list.   Latest report from http://krebsonsecurity.com suggests that in it’s latest version [...]

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Malware Custom Made for Google Chrome – Now Available for Download ;)

Okay, the joke ends at the title and here starts the serious deal. The first step of being secure on the web is, being aware and acting carefully while online. Browsers including Chrome take a lot of steps to make us all aware when we are entering a unsafe territory. What if someone chooses to trick that [...]

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Chrome Survives Pwn2Own – Again !

Chrome has survived the annual Pwn2Own hacking match, again. This is the third win for Google Chrome and no one even tried for the $20000 Google offered for successful hack. So, officially, Chrome is the most secure browser again. On Wednesday, researchers successfully exploited Safari and Internet Explorer. A team from French security company Vupen took down [...]

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Chrome Sandboxes It’s GPU Process

Sandboxing is a security feature that Chrome has implemented on Tabs, and then on the built in flash. It separates each processes that’s running on the browser and makes it more secure. In simple words, when we say tabs are sandboxed, each tab works as separate processes, and even if someone breaks in to one tab, it [...]

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Hack Chrome And Get A CR48 Notebook and $20000 In Prize

The 5th annual Pwn2Own competition is here. Current Champions, Google Chrome from Google is back with a good prize for participants, $20,000 and a CR48. Cr48 is not a target in this competition. Hackers will have to break chrome browser on windows 7 machines to win and CR48 notebook is only a part of the [...]

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Keep My Opt-Outs Extension By Google – Opt Out Of Tracking Your Data

This one is for those security concerned minds, straight from Google. Keep My Opt-Outs is an extension for users who aren’t comfortable with personalization of the ads they see on the web. It’s a one-step, persistent opt-out of personalized advertising and related data tracking performed by companies adopting the industry privacy standards for online advertising. [...]

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Why Does Chrome Think Gmail Is Insecure?

Ever since they introduced new icons next to website addresses to show secure and insecure connections, Chrome shows Gmail as an insecure website, partially. Lifehacker.com has an in depth article on why this happens and more. According to Ian, other possible offenders (i.e., reasons your padlock may not be green) include Gmail Labs features and [...]

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He Earned $20000 By Finding Bugs in Chrome !!!

Look at this guy friends. He made a good fortune by spotting bugs and security flaws in Chrome or Chromium code ! Google pays volunteers who find bugs in Chromium’s source code and lists them in a Security Hall of Fame. Currently top of the tree is Sergey Glazunov. This is the story of this cool [...]

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