Sunday, January 8th, 2012 Google has released a beta version of its Chrome 17 browser that scans for malicious downloads, which may help tackle scareware threats. The browser will issue a warning to discard a file when a user attempts to download a known bad file or if the file comes from a ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2011 Google Chrome contains a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to silently execute remote code on a victim's machine outside of the browser's built-in sandbox protections, according to researchers at Slovenia-based Acros Security.According to Google, however, the issue is not technically a flaw, but rather a “strange behavior” that would ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011 Launching a new Web app today comes with a few certainties, and one of them is, “I will be a target for hackers” for sure. So when an app as large and as high profile as Google+ launches, it will surely be one of the top targets for malicious activity. ...
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011 You've got it, and I've got it. Everyone's overwhelmed by the sheer number of social sites the industry keep churning out.I was already struggling to stay active on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Buzz, Google Reader and several other social sites.As new media come online, the old ones never go away. ...
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 Google has released a list of security features being built into the upcoming Chrome 13 and includes Content Security Policy (CSP) and HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) implementations, certificate pinning and self-XSS filter.The Content Security Policy (CSP) is a specification developed by Mozilla which aimed at providing a solution for ...
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