Zak is a widely recognized expert on surveillance, cyber and the security and privacy risks with AI, big tech, social media and smartphones. He is regularly cited in the media, with appearances on BBC, Sky, NPR, NBC, Channel 4, TF1, ITV and Fox. Zak has 25-years real-world experience in AI, cyber and surveillance.
If you’re one of the billions of users of Google Chrome, then two separate warnings have just been issued that you should take seriously...a security update that includes at least three high-severity fixes for vulnerabilities of the kind that have been exploited in the past.
The other fix is for a use after free issue, which means an attacker might be able to use latent pointers to route through to memory after it’s freed up, with the risk that the platform or device might be destabilized, opening up other vulnerabilities.Google does not openly publish details of security issues at this early stage “until a majority of users are updated with a fix.” Even then, details might be withheld if the rogue software is widely deployed across other systems.
The second warning is very different and impacts Android users. Another rogue Chrome lookalike has been caught in the wild. The trojan “masquerading as Google Chrome... takes advantage of the popularity and trust associated with Chrome to trick users into downloading and installing it.” The team atThis isn’t available on the official Play Store—users will be directed to other sites or downloads. We have already seenthis year of Chrome’s likeness being used to push malicious apps.
Check the developer in the app’s description—is it someone you’d like inside your life? And check the reviews, do they look legitimate or farmed?
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