April 16, 2022

Yet another Chrome zero-day emergency update – patch now!

The third emergency Chrome 0-day in three months - the first one was exploited by North Korea, so you might as well get this one ASAP.

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January 05, 2021

Chrome browser has a New Year’s resolution: HTTPS by default

If snooping and falsifying web traffic is so easy when plain old HTTP is used, why do we still have HTTP at all?

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April 17, 2020

Critical bug in Google Chrome – get your update now

Here's the short version: Google just issued a Chrome update with a note that says, "This update includes 1 critical security fix."

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April 18, 2019

Chrome flaw on iOS leads to 500 million unwanted pop-up ads

If you own an iOS device and use the Chrome browser, you may have encountered some strange-looking pop-up ads in the past week.

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February 16, 2018

Why Chrome’s ad filter isn’t an adblocker

Optimistic news coverage has described this as the arrival of adblocking in Chrome, it isn't.

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September 07, 2017

What’s under the hood of the new Brave browser?

There's a new kid on the browser block based on Ethereum - but what's its business model and what's in it for users?

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June 27, 2017

Firefox Focus: the not-quite-a-browser for Android aims for privacy

Mozilla has brought its stripped back browser that focuses on speed and privacy to Android - here's what we've made of it

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November 10, 2016

Google hits incorrigible sites with “Repeat Offender” tag

Google is toughening its Safe Browsing policies for sites that won't clean up their act

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August 30, 2016

Opera announces data breach: stored passwords stolen for 1.7M users

1.7M users of "Opera sync" were hit when crooks made off with encrypted passwords stored on the Sync servers.

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