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Firefox 100 and Chrome 100 may have user-agent issues

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyFebruary 18, 2022

Mozilla developers have warned that sites may experience problems with the upcoming versions of Firefox 100 and Chrome 100 (released May 3 and March 29, 2022). The fact is that the release of new versions will mean that the user-agent values will become three-digit. The

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Google developers told how they will implement Manifest V3

ByVladimir KrasnogolovySeptember 27, 2021

This week, Google developers shared their plans to bring the infamous Manifest V3 to full functionality, which became available in the beta version of Chrome 88. Let me remind you that for the first time talks about Manifest V3 started in 2018. Then the developers of Google

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJune 15, 2021

Google’s experiment with attempt to shorten URLs (hiding parts of the URL from the address bar) has finally failed and was finished. Let me remind you that in recent years, Chrome developers have returned to this topic more than once. For example, back in 2018,

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Chrome 90 gets new security feature to protect against attacks on Windows 10

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMay 6, 2021

Google has introduced a new Windows 10 security feature called Hardware-enforced Stack Protection in its Chrome 90 browser to protect the memory stack against cyberattacks. Microsoft introduced Hardware-enforced Stack Protection in March 2020. The feature is designed to

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Google fixed another major vulnerability in the V8 engine

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 28, 2021

A series of feverish fixes for problems in Google Chrome continues, this time Google has fixed a major vulnerability related to the operation of the JavaScript engine V8 in the browser. The vulnerability that received an identificatory number CVE-2021-21227 and was assessed

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Chrome again frantically fixes 0-day vulnerabilities

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 15, 2021

Google has released a new version of Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux, in which developers are patching two recently discovered 0-day vulnerabilities. According to the company, exploits are already available for these bugs. Problems received identifiers CVE-2021-21206 and

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Researcher discovered that Chrome Sync function can be used to steal data

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyFebruary 8, 2021

Croatian researcher Bojan Zdrnja discovered a malicious Chrome extension abusing Chrome Sync. If you do not use Chrome, let me remind you that this function is applied to synchronize data between different user’s devices, and stores copies of all user bookmarks,

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Google says that a quarter of all 0-day vulnerabilities are new variations of old problems

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyFebruary 4, 2021

Google analysts studied the 0-day vulnerabilities they discovered in 2020, and concluded that almost a quarter of the problems are new variations of already known bugs that had previously received patches. The authors of the report write that many problems could have been

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Chrome 87 Fixed NAT Slipstream Vulnerability and Disabled FTP Support

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyNovember 18, 2020

Google engineers introduced Chrome 87, in which was disabled FTP support. The new version of the browser is already available for users of Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android and iOS. The developers claim that Chrome has become more productive and “lighter”.

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Google engineers fixed Chrome 0-day vulnerability that was already under attacks

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 21, 2020

Google engineers have released an updated version of Google Chrome (86.0.4240.111) and warn that they have fixed in browser 0-day vulnerability that has been already under active attacks. The error was discovered internally by Google Project Zero. It is identified as