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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Releases Urgent Chrome Update to Fix Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability  The Hacker News Source link

Former GOP operative Tim Miller on Friday suggested a Donald Trump weakness that may cost the former president his bid to become the Republican party’s 2024 presidential nominee. Trump’s “success efficacy” particularly on immigration issues may play a key role, the former spokesperson for the Republican National Committee told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner. But Trump’s push to develop a coronavirus vaccine, and his acceptance of COVID mitigation measures such as lockdowns in the early months… Source link

I was pleased to get through the end of the 2022 seasonal holidays without a zero-day exploit landing for Google Chrome if I’m being honest. Attackers do like to strike when security teams and consumers alike are kicking back, after all. In fact, the last security update for users of the Google Chrome desktop browser, Windows, Mac, and Linux versions, was back on December 13, 2022. That is the same day that Microsoft, Adobe, and others release their scheduled monthly security updates: Patch… Source link

Google LLC has begun rolling out a patch for a high-severity security vulnerability that affects the desktop version of its Chrome browser. The company disclosed the move in a Thursday blog post. The vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2022-4135, affects the Windows, Mac and Linux editions of Chrome. Google stated that the patch will roll out over the coming days and weeks. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-4135 exists in the wild,” the company stated in the blog… Source link

Google recently rolled out an emergency fix for a zero-day vulnerability, the seventh one so far in 2022, affecting its flagship web browser Chrome. The latest patch fixes a type confusion bug in the JavaScript-based V8 engine. Tracked as CVE-2022-3723, the flaw is the seventh zero-day vulnerability, i.e., whose exploit is publicly available, and the third type confusion weakness in Chrome’s V8 engine. Needless to say, users should prioritize patching the… Source link

Google issued a fresh set of Chrome security updates Wednesday headlined by a zero-day flaw that is actively being targeted in the wild. The tech giant said that its August security update includes a total of 11 fixes, including patches for 10 CVE-listed vulnerabilities. One Chrome vulnerability, CVE-2022-2852, is classified as a critical risk, six are categorized as high risk, and the remaining three are all considered medium risks. Included in the update was a patch for CVE-2022-2856,… Source link

As a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden never mentioned ransomware. As president, however, he must craft a solution to a burgeoning economic and national-security threat that may now rank as dangerous as terrorism.  Ransomware attacks, perpetrated by hackers who paralyze an organization’s computer network and demand a ransom payment to unlock it, aren’t new. They date back to at least 2006 as a kind of side gig for enterprising hackers. What is new is the corporatization of… Source link

The update patches a total of seven security flaws in the desktop versions of the popular web browser Google has released an update for its Chrome web browser that fixes a range of security flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability that is known to be actively exploited by malicious actors. The bugs affect the Windows, macOS, and Linux versions of the popular… Source link

Google has added an extra 30-day period to its vulnerability disclosure cycle to allow customers more time to fix vulnerabilities before technical details are released. The tech giant’s Project Zero team is a prolific researcher of industry vulnerabilities, and maintains a strict 90-day policy of public vulnerability disclosure after vendor notification, in order to pressure firms to issue patches quicker. “In practice however, we didn’t observe a significant shift in patch development… Source link

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the easiest ways to combat spear phishing and account take over, but it’s not perfect. In a report published this week, security researchers from NinjaLab successfully cloned a Google Titan security key and exposed a vulnerability affecting the NXP P5x cryptographic chipset used by numerous other security keys. Launched in 2018, Google’s Titan security key is a MFA hardware device used to physically verify the identity of the user. The… Source link