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Google Chrome browser security issues exposed

Google Chrome browser security issues exposed

By: Peter Chubb | September 4, 2008 | 3 Comments

It was bound to happen, security researchers have been testing Google Chrome web browser and they have found vulnerabilities. It seems that they have now exposed a number of security issues with the beta browser.

One such vulnerability is how a hacker might be able to crash the browser. Rishi Narang was one of the security researcher has described the issue on the SecuriTeam Web site. He has posted the proof of his findings on another site, Evilfingers.

Narang explains that a hacker might be able to build a malicious link that includes an undefined handler, which is then followed by a certain character. When a user then goes to click on the link, Google Chrome will crash.

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  • http://www.saintger.com Saint Germain

    Google Chrome is very fast, but there are no extensions…. so i keep my Firefox.

  • David Gerard

    Google’s new browser will give you their web and email services, photo processing, mapping, office applications that will run in said browser and will make you a cup of tea. This is all paid for by personally-directed text ads in your tea leaves, based on analysing a DNA sample taken when you sip the tea and sending your genetic code back to Google for future targeting.

    http://notnews.today.com/?p=57

  • User1

    I like David Gerard’s comment and agree…google have been abandoned by their founders after being sublimely overtaken by the global “special interest groups” who also happen to control the NSA amongst other entities so google will always end up serving the stupid archaic agenda of control and of course hidden profit.