 Google Chrome is without a doubt the most popular internet browser in the world right now and according to third-party data, it holds close to 65% market share. Google Chrome is easy to use and secure. Last year, the search engine giant updated the web browser with a much-needed built-in software that would warn users about incompatible apps. It’s an experimental feature and sometime it could warn users against the apps. The browser began blocking third-party software from injecting into Chrome processes. After restarting, it will allow the injection but it would show a warning that guides the user to remove the software. Over the last few days, in an old Google product forum post, the users have revealed that Google Chrome browser is warning them against legit apps and the warning showed up after the browser crashed. In another thread, users claim that they have received a similar warning. A user on Reddit social media website has also shared a screenshot that shows Chrome browser’s warning in action. According to the Reddit user, the Chrome browser crashed and it launched with the above screen. The issue is not limited to any specific app. By the looks of things, the first few reports appeared back in late June and new reports have surfaced online over the last few days. More on this topic is posted on OUR FORUM.  Google has patched a vulnerability in the Chrome browser that allows an attacker to retrieve sensitive information from other sites via audio or video HTML tags. Ron Masas, a security researcher with Imperva, discovered and reported this issue —tracked as CVE-2018-6177— to Google. The browser maker fixed the security hole at the end of July with the release of Chrome v68.0.3440.75. The vulnerability can be exploited in older versions of Chrome in situations where an attacker can lure a victim on a malicious site, via malvertising (malicious code inside ads embedded on legitimate sites), or via vulnerabilities on legitimate sites where an attacker can inject and execute code —such as via stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws. In a write-up published earlier today and shared with Bleeping Computer, Masas explained that the attack scenario requires malicious code that loads content from legitimate sites inside audio and video HTML tags. Through the use of "progress" events, Masas says he can deduce the size of responses he gets from external sites, and guess various types of information. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't be possible because of CORS —Cross-Origin Resource Sharing— a browser security feature that prevents sites from loading resources from other websites, but this attack bypasses CORS. Full details posted on OUR FORUM.  Most recent Intel processors for desktops, laptops, and tablets feature integrated graphics capable of driving 4K displays and maybe even some gaming tasks. But Intel has been beefing up its graphics team recently, and now the company has confirmed recent reports that it plans to launch a discrete graphics card in 2020. The news comes via a short video posted on Twitter, and while it’s light on details, the company does promise that in 2020 it will “set our graphics free,” indicating that we’ll see a GPU that’s not built into the same silicon as an Intel CPU. This isn’t Intel’s first foray into discrete graphics solutions. The company launched the Intel i740 graphics card in 1998… but it was a commercial flop and the company scrapped the entire product line not long after that (a small number of i752 cards were released, but Intel canceled the i754 graphics card before it ever launched). At this point, it’s unclear what Intel hopes to bring to the table in 2020. A lot has changed in the past two decades and the discrete GPU space is still dominated by NVIDIA and AMD (which acquired GPU maker ATI). But Intel has also been chugging along all that time pushing more and more advanced features into integrated graphics. There's more posted on OUR FORUM. |
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