Google’s “browse privately” is nothing more than a word play, lawyers say

Categories: News

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Google

Tags: Chrome

Tags: Incognito

Tags: private mode

Tags: fingerprinting

Tags: cookies

Tags: tracking

Private browsing is not what users expect it to be

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Criminals target businesses with malicious extension for Meta’s Ads Manager and accidentally leak stolen accounts

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: Meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: malware

Tags: ads manager

Tags: chrome

Tags: extension

A group of criminals is actively targeting Facebook business users to gain access to their advertising accounts via malicious Chrome extensions. But we spotted that they made a mistake…

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Update Chrome now! Google fixes critical vulnerability in Autofill payments

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Google

Tags: Chrome

Tags: Autofill

Tags: payments critical

Tags: CVE-2023-3214

Google has released an update which includes five security fixes including a critical vulnerability in Autofill payments.

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Update Chrome now! Google patches actively exploited zero-day

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Google

Tags: Chrome

Tags: V8

Tags: heap corruption

Tags: type confusion

Tags: CVE-2023-3079

Google has released a Chrome update for a zero-day for which an exploit is actively being used in the wild.

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Microsoft vs Google spat sees users rolling back security updates to fix browser issues

Categories: News

Tags: Chrome

Tags: Windows

Tags: Edge

Tags: browser

Tags: update

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: default

Tags: install

We take a look at trouble brewing in browser land after a controversial Windows update leaves Chrome fans without a useful feature.

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Google takes CryptBot to the wood shed

Categories: News

Tags: CryptBot

Tags: malware

Tags: chrome

Tags: download

Tags: package

Tags: packages

Tags: google

Tags: legal

Tags: court order

Tags: RICO

Tags: Pakistan

We take a look at Google’s efforts to shut down a particularly nasty set of modified Chrome installs playing host to CryptBot malware.

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