Google developers have created Password Alert, an open-source Chrome extension that aims to protect users from phishing attacks.
Tag Archives: Google Chrome
TLS certificate blunder revisited – whither China Internet Network Information Center?
Just under three weeks ago, we wrote about a TLS certificate blunder by a Root Certificate Authority called CNNIC. We thought we’d revisit that story today to see how the Big Four browser makers responded to the lapse…
“Probably tired and shagged out after a long squawk” – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Our weekly witty-but-serious video – news you can use, and it only takes a minute. Enjoy…
SSCC 191 – Live in Ljubljana [PODCAST]
Chester is on the road again, this time to present at a conference in Slovenia. So this episode of the Chet Chat comes to you from an al fresco café in downtown Ljubljana…
“Pwn2Own” competition pops Flash, Reader and four browsers, pays out over $550K [POLL]
Pwn2Own has become something of an institution on the North American computer security conference circuit. Come and vote in our poll to tell us what you think of security contests like this…
Google turns Pwnium into an all-year, unlimited-rewards bug-hunting contest
Google’s new thinking around bug hunting: get it to us ASAP, from wherever you are. 
Google redesigns security warnings after 70% of Chrome users ignore them
You can strip jargon, but in the end, the warnings that work best are those with visual throb: pick the right colors and hide the wrong choices!
Anatomy of a browser dilemma – how HSTS ‘supercookies’ make you choose between privacy or security
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is supposed to keep you more secure online, but it could be used to track you against your will. Mark Stockley explains…
WhatsApp Web has privacy holes that could expose user photos
WhatsApp has just rolled out a new service called WhatsApp Web that allows users to sync the messaging app between their mobile devices and desktop, but the new web client has a couple of privacy pitfalls that indicate it’s not really ready for its close-up.
GCHQ and police team up to hunt down child abusers on the darknet
A major crackdown on child-abuse imagery includes a new law making it illegal for an adult to send a sexual communication to a child. 