Security News

Chrome extensions easily disabled without user interaction (Help Net Security)
2015-08-03 15:07

Independent researcher Mathias Karlsson has discovered a vulnerability that can be exploited to disable Chrome extensions without user interaction. Apparently, the bug has already been discovered a...

New Chrome Extension Helps Combat Keyboard Biometric Profiling (Threatpost)
2015-07-29 18:07

Two security researchers released a new Chrome extension this week that not only keeps track of what users type, but how they type, all in hopes of better protecting users’ privacy online.

Chrome extension thwarts user profiling based on typing behavior (Help Net Security)
2015-07-28 13:55

The problems with passwords have already been well documented, and the main problem with static biometrics ("something you are": fingerprints, retina patterns, etc.) is that they can't be changed. ...

Dmail: A Chrome extension for sending self-destructing emails (Help Net Security)
2015-07-28 10:32

Social bookmarking web service Delicious has released a free beta version of Dmail, an extension for the Chrome browser which allows senders to delete an email they sent and have regretted sending soo...

Google Patches 43 Bugs in Chrome (Threatpost)
2015-07-22 13:23

A new version of Google Chrome is available, and it contains patches for 43 security vulnerabilities, many of them in the high-risk category. Two of the more serious vulnerabilities fixed in...