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Microsoft has addressed a total of 61 new security flaws in its software as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for May 2024, including two zero-days which have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 61 flaws, one is rated Critical, 59 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. This is […]
Google has rolled out security updates to fix seven security issues in its Chrome browser, including a zero-day that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-6345, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as an integer overflow bug in Skia, an open source 2D graphics library. Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of […]
Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that, if successfully exploited, could have made it possible to siphon files containing confidential data. “The issue arose from the way the browser interacted with symlinks when processing files and directories,” Imperva researcher Ron Masas said. “Specifically, the browser did not properly […]
A malicious extension for Chromium-based web browsers has been observed to be distributed via a long-standing Windows information stealer called ViperSoftX. Czech-based cybersecurity company dubbed the rogue browser add-on VenomSoftX owing to its standalone features that enable it to access website visits, steal credentials and clipboard data, and even swap cryptocurrency addresses via an adversary-in-the-middle […]
A threat actor operating with interests aligned with North Korea has been deploying a malicious extension on Chromium-based web browsers that’s capable of stealing email content from Gmail and AOL. Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the malware to an activity cluster it calls SharpTongue, which is said to share overlaps with an adversarial collective publicly referred […]
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is one of the most well known web application vulnerabilities. It even has a dedicated chapter in the OWASP Top 10 project and it is a highly chased vulnerability in bug bounty programs. The scanner gets a link from the user and scan the website for XSS vulnerability by injecting malicious […]
Microsoft has finally achieved its goal of making the Edge browser available on older versions of the Windows operating system. As you might know, the Edge Chromium insider preview builds are being pushed to Windows 10 machines for a while. The company has opened up its Edge Canary channel to machines running Windows 7, Windows […]
In December, last year, Microsoft announced its plan to move to Chromium platform for its Edge browser. Redmond-based company’s move towards Google’s open source platform attracted mixed comments. While Google search giant supported the decision, Mozilla lashed out at Microsoft for strengthening Google’s monopoly. Not much is known about the new browser, but we know that […]
If you’re a regular user of Google Chrome, then your life is going to become a lot easier with the release of Chrome 73. This is because the popular internet browser will add support for the Media Session API. On Windows 10 PCs, the API will allow Chrome to use the native media controls which […]
Microsoft has confirmed that it’s changing the way it develops Edge web browser for Windows 10. Confirming the rumors that were making rounds in the tech media, the company announced its plans to shift from the proprietary EdgeHTML engine to open source Chromium project. In the announcement post on Windows blog, the company iterated the […]
When it comes to the world of Linux, it’s understandable that certain software and drivers could be shaky at first; a lot of works goes into writing a driver from scratch and continuously maintaining it. However, over the years, Linux GPU drivers have matured a lot. Well, Google doesn’t think so. It’s not hidden that […]
We do know that there is a deep underlying connection shared by Chrome operating system and Linux. Though Chrome OS is based on Gentoo Linux it is not possible to run traditional desktop Linux applications on it. But that has been solved with Crouton script that lets a chroot of Debian Linux or Ubuntu to […]
Short Bytes: Hyper is a Cross Operating System Terminal Emulator coded entirely with HTML, CSS, and Javascript built with Electron. It’s extensively extendable, you can even open web URLs inside it like you do in your browser, you can change its font and appearance with text-based configuration and more. It has a plugin oriented API which can […]
Google Chrome’s next update will make the browser consume less RAM than it usually does. We all know and we all use the all-great Google Chrome. What we also know that as web technologies become more advanced day by day, the burden on our not so advanced RAMs becomes greater and greater. To address this issue […]
Short Bytes: A new desktop environment has been released for the Raspbian Linux distribution. It is called Pixel and it marks one of the biggest visual changes to the Raspbian. It includes various features like new background images, redesigned icons and windows, WiFi and Bluetooth management options, RealVNC, Chromium, etc. The Raspbian Linux distribution for the […]
Google accused by EFF for Collecting Students Data via Chromebook. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group, has lodged a complaint at the United States Federal Trade Commission/FTC accusing Google of storing students’ data without their permission. EFF claims that Google’s Chromebook invades students’ privacy through its default “sync” feature on the Google Chrome […]
Researchers have discovered a malware that takes over Chrome as a browser and looks quick similar to chrome in every aspect. The malware is based on Chromium open-source software which allows it to maintain the same interface as chrome and for a normal user this thing is very difficult to identify. The browser instead of […]
Recently, a researcher revealed that Google might be spying on all of its Chromium web browser users by stealth downloading audio listeners onto their computer, which then transmits all the audio from computer’s microphone back to the Google servers. Well, this determines that Google had given itself the right to listen to everything happening within […]