Top MacOS App Exfiltrates Browser Histories Behind Users’ Backs
A macOS App called Adware Doctor blocks ads, but shares user browser history with a China-based domain.
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Google to Ditch Public Key Pinning in Chrome
Google says upcoming version of Chrome will deprecate the browser’s support for HTTP public key pinning.
Chrome Security Team Tackles ‘Friendly Fire’ To Keep Browser Safe
Justin Schuh, lead engineer of Chrome Security, said ensuring browser security for Chrome users is a balancing act juggling OEM pressures, questionable certificate authorities and quashing third-party software incompatibility issues.
Google paid out $38,000 in bounty rewards tied to flaws it fixed with a Chrome 57 browser update.
In a move to bolster security for the Chrome browser, Google sets a date for making Certificate Transparency mandatory for website owners.
Five Chrome bug bounty hunters split $14,000 in rewards as Google patches nine security flaws in its browser, four are labeled “high”.
Mozilla announced this week that it plans to integrate a silent updater in the next build of its flagship browser, Firefox, allowing future patches for Firefox 12 to be downloaded and installed in the background while the browser is running, according to a blog post by Robert Nyman, Mozilla’s Technical Evangelist on hacks.mozilla.org on Wednesday.
Microsoft was forced to push out an emergency update to its Security Essentials and Forefront products Friday after users complained that an updated virus signature intended to spot the Zeus Trojan was, instead, flagging and even removing instances of Google’s Chrome Web browser.
There has been a bit of back and forth quibbling going on between researchers at French security firm Vupen, claiming to have found and exploited a vulnerability in Google’s Chrome browser, and security researchers at Google, who claim the bug they exploited was actually in Adobe Flash, and therefore, was “Not a Chrome pwn.”
