Chrome

Chrome 23 has been released and besides the significant feature improvements, Google has also addressed a number of 14 vulnerabilities to ensure that their customers are protected against potential cyberattacks.

The high-severity security holes fixed in Chrome 23 include a use-after-free in SVG filter handling, an Integer bounds check problem in GPU command buffer, a use-after-free in video layout, a memory corruption in texture handling, a bad write in v8, and an issue with a buggy graphics driver that only affects Macs.

L33tdawg: For more details on Pinkie Pie's exploit as well as insight to Google's bug bounty program, take a look at Chris Evan's presentation slides from #HITB2012KUL

Google has fixed a hole in its Chrome browser that earned a white hat hacker $60,000 at the recent Pwnium 2 hacking contest.

The company released the fix for the vulnerability on Wednesday, around 10 hours after it was revealed at the Pwnium competition at 'Hack in the Box 2012' contest in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday. The hacker — who goes by the name of 'pinkie pie' — found the vulnerability in the browser by combining two separate exploits, and netted a cool $60,000 for his discovery, as well as a free Chromebook.

FOR all intents and purposes, Google’s Chrome web browser has been one of the fastest adopted browser in the history of the browser wars. Although there is some debate going on about how these metrics are exactly measured, it’s safe to say that indicatively, Google’s share of browser use has escalated in the past three years since it came into being.
 

Google has finally added support for the DNT (Do Not Track) header to their latest developer build of Chrome. The modification is likely to make it into an official release of Google's popular web browser before the end of the year.

Do Not Track is a feature that allows users to express a simple yes or no preference about being tracked online.

Google has issued an update for its Chrome browser for Android, with the focus on increasing its security.

According to Google software engineer Jay Civelli, who posted on the Google Chrome Blog today, the latest 18.0.1025308 update of Chrome for Android strengthens its sandbox. The Android and desktop versions of Chrome use a multi-process architecture to ensure that if one tab hangs or crashes, it doesn't affect other tabs, or at least affects only the minimum number of tabs.

Browsing "Incognito" on Chrome for iOS may help protect users' privacy, but it was having the opposite effect on their saved passwords.

The Next Web reported earlier today that numerous iPhone and iPad users had been complaining about their saved passwords vanishing in the recently updated Chrome iOS app. According to a thread on the Chrome development site Chromium, the problem had to do with closing an Incognito tab after browsing anonymously. But it seems the Chrome folks heard the gripes:

L33tdawg:  $2 million sounds mighty tasty :) What are you waiting for?! Book those flight tickets already!!!

If Google hadn’t made the message clear enough already: It really, really wants you to hack its software.

Google has released version 22 of their popular Chrome web browser and while it doesn’t come with a huge list of changes, there are a couple of features to get excited about if you are concerned with security. Google has infused Chrome with the fully hardware-accelerated Pepper Flash plug-in for Windows users, resulting in what has been described as unrivalled protection against malicious Flash apps found lurking on the Internet.

Google today released Chrome 21. On the security side, the new version fixes 15 vulnerabilities: one critical flaw, six high-severity flaws, five medium-severity flaws, and three low-severity flaws. You can update to the latest version using the software's built-in silent updater, or you can download the latest version of Chrome directly from google.com/chrome.