Chrome

Hack Chromebook in guest mode, get $100,000

March 15, 2016

Google has once again upped the ante for bug hunters concentrating on Chrome, and is now offering $100,000 to anyone capable of achieving a compromise of a Chromebook or …

Malicious Chrome extensions ransack Steam users’ inventory

January 19, 2016

Steam users are being targeted by a scammer that’s offering apparently helpful Chrome extensions for free, but is actually using them to steal items from victims’ …

Vonteera adware blocks AVs, can install uninstallable Chrome extensions

November 25, 2015

The Vonteera adware family has been around for quite some time, but it is now slowly starting to cross the line between unwanted, potentially malicious software to outright …

Analytics services are tracking users via Chrome extensions

November 23, 2015

It’s quite possible that, despite your belief that the Google Chrome is the safest browser there is and your use of extensions that prevent tracking, your online …

Google debuts customized warning for social engineering sites

November 16, 2015

Google Chrome users will from now on be faced with a new, customized warning every time they visit a website/page that contains social engineering content:“The threat …

SHA-2 encryption will make many sites inaccessible to users who can’t afford newer tech

October 26, 2015

A group of security researchers has recently announced that it’s highly likely that effective collision attacks that would break SHA-1 encryption will be revealed by the …

Malicious Google Chrome clone eFast serves ads, collects info

October 21, 2015

A Google Chrome lookalike browser dubbed eFast is being actively pushed onto users. The software is at best annoying and unwanted, and at worst can lead users to …

Google adds another obstacle for developers of deceptive Chrome extensions

August 10, 2015

Starting on September 3, Google will begin disabling inline installation (i.e. installation from the developer’s website) for extensions linked to deceptive sites and …

EFF’s Privacy Badger prevents users being tracked online

August 7, 2015

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally released version 1.0 of Privacy Badger, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your …

Chrome extensions easily disabled without user interaction

August 3, 2015

Independent researcher Mathias Karlsson has discovered a vulnerability that can be exploited to disable Chrome extensions without user interaction.Apparently, the bug has …

Chrome extension thwarts user profiling based on typing behavior

July 28, 2015

The problems with passwords have already been well documented, and the main problem with static biometrics (“something you are”: fingerprints, retina patterns, …

Dmail: A Chrome extension for sending self-destructing emails