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Google announces $2 milion in prizes for Pwnium 2

Following the announcement that it will be upping the monetary rewards given to security researchers that responsibly disclose Chromium vulnerabilities, Google has announced …

Google will block Chrome add-ons from third-party sites

Google has instituted a new rule that should keep Chrome users safe from malicious add-ons: starting with version 21.0.1180.41 (currently in beta), the browser will block all …

Fake Flash update leads to malicious add-ons

Fake Flash update notifications are old news, but users still fall for the trick. In the latest example unearthed by Zscaler’s Julien Sobrier, one such notification …

HTML5 browser-based, certificateless encryption platform

CertiVox launched the PrivateSky, a service that provides protection for messages, files and other information sent via the cloud through a two-factor authentication process …

When syncing sinks your browser

Google Chrome’s most recent version (v19) introduced a “tab sync” feature. When inspecting this feature from a security perspective we realized that a new …

MacScan 2.9.3 with Google Chrome and SeaMonkey support released

SecureMac released MacScan 2.9.3, which features tracking cookie detection and cleaning for Google’s Chrome browser. MacScan is the premier Macintosh security program, …

Banking Trojan masquerading as Chrome installer

Brazilian and Peruvian users looking to install Google’s Chrome browser are in grave danger of downloading information-stealing malware instead. “We recently found …

Facebook users targeted with account-hijacking Chrome extensions

With the steady rise in popularity of both Facebook and Google’s Chrome browser, cyber scammers have turned to targeting users of both. According to Kaspersky Lab expert …

Teen exploits three 0-days to hack Chrome, earns $60K from Google

The end of this year’s editions of the Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests has been marked by another Chrome hack, executed by a teenage security researcher that goes by the …

IE 9 hacked at Pwn2Own, Google patches Chrome bugs

After the success they had with attacking Google’s Chrome browser, the team of vulnerability researchers from French firm VUPEN has also managed to hack …

Chrome already pwned twice at CanSecWest

The annual CanSecWest conference opened on Wednesday in Vancouver, and before the first session even started, Google’s Chrome was exploited successfully not once, but …

New “HTTPS Everywhere” for Firefox and a beta for Chrome

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched the 2.0 version of HTTPS Everywhere for the Firefox browser today, including an important new update that warns users about …

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