Collaborate Disseminate
Long-time Slashdot reader Tablizer writes: Chrome’s spell checker doesn’t list the proper option for “devine” or “preditor”. Soundex would match them and is relatively simple to implement, but most browsers allegedly use the Hunspell algorithm. However… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Lousy Browser Spell-Checkers?
By Waqas
Ensure Your Chrome Browser Is Up to Date and Secure: Enable Automatic Updates to Safeguard Against Cybersecurity Threats
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Critical Chrome Update Counters Spyware Vendor’s Exploits
Continue reading Critical Chrome Update Counters Spyware Vendor’s Exploits
Google has fixed another critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-5217) in Chrome that is being exploited in the wild. About CVE-2023-5217 The vulnerability is caused by a heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx – a video codec library fr… Continue reading Yet another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild! (CVE-2023-5217)
Google has rushed to patch a new Chrome zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5217 and exploited by a spyware vendor.
The post Google Rushes to Patch New Zero-Day Exploited by Spyware Vendor appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Continue reading Google Rushes to Patch New Zero-Day Exploited by Spyware Vendor
The Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild and patched by Google a few weeks ago has a new ID (CVE-2023-5129) and a description that tells the whole story: the vulnerability is not in Chrome, but the libwebp library, which is used by many popular applic… Continue reading Google “confirms” that exploited Chrome zero-day is actually in libwebp (CVE-2023-5129)
Both Apple and Google have recently reported critical vulnerabilities in their systems—iOS and Chrome, respectively—that are ultimately the result of the same vulnerability in the libwebp library:
On Thursday, researchers from security firm Rezillion published evidence that they said made it “highly likely” both indeed stemmed from the same bug, specifically in libwebp, the code library that apps, operating systems, and other code libraries incorporate to process WebP images.
Rather than Apple, Google, and Citizen Lab coordinating and accurately reporting the common origin of the vulnerability, they chose to use a separate CVE designation, the researchers said. The researchers concluded that “millions of different applications” would remain vulnerable until they, too, incorporated the libwebp fix. That, in turn, they said, was preventing automated systems that developers use to track known vulnerabilities in their offerings from detecting a critical vulnerability that’s under active exploitation…
If you can’t open the Chrome Web Store or if it is not working correctly, this post will help you resolve the issue. How do I open Chrome Web Store? To open or use the Chrome Web Store, click the three-dot menu button. After that, go to the Exten… Continue reading Chrome Web Store not opening or working [Fix]
In this article, we will look at the reasons why Google Voice Search is not working on your Windows PC and various solutions to fix the issue. The error happens when you click the microphone icon, but it shows an error such as ‘Voice search has been tu… Continue reading Google Voice Search not working on Windows PC
I was browsing around on Chrome on a Windows 10 computer, and inadvertently clicked on an ad that appeared under my mouse.
Immediately, the browser went full screen and showed a website saying that they had stolen my data, that I had to ca… Continue reading How did a website disable Alt-F4 and Alt-Tab? [migrated]
Some users have reported that the Chrome browser crashes, freezes or becomes unresponsive while downloading files from the internet. If you are one of the affected users, this guide will help you fix the issue. Chrome crashes or freezes when downloadin… Continue reading Chrome crashes or freezes when downloading a file [Fix]