Monday, July 26th, 2010
Google Chrome 5.0.375.125 has been released to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, Windows, and Chrome Frame.Download:http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Google has recently launched an "experimental new incentive" that could reward security researchers for their bugs in the Chrome browser (all versions - stable, beta, and dev) or in the open source Chromium project itself. Their base reward is identical to Mozilla's at $500, but they are offering a higher ...
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Software makers around the world are scrambling to fix a serious bug in the technology used to transfer information securely on the Internet.The flaw lies in the SSL protocol, best known as the technology used for secure browsing on Web sites beginning with HTTPS, and lets attackers intercept secure SSL ...
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
On the Noisebridge hacker mailing list, security specialist Jacob Appelbaum has published an SSL certificate and pertinent private key that together allow web servers to avoid triggering an alert in vulnerable browsers - irrespective of the domain for which the certificate is submitted. Phishers, for example, could use the certificate ...
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Well, all that URL-encoded text in the links evaluates to something functionally equivalent to this:
nonsense = "[x][b]\n[b]:/[" + this.innerHTML + "](/=eval(unescape(this.innerHTML9371d7a2e3ae86a00aab4771e39d255d9371d7a2e3ae86a00aab4771e39d255d//)";
elements = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
if (elements[i].innerHTML == 'reply') ...
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