google chrome

Google Chrome Now Blocks Site Notifications With Abusive Content Starting with Chrome 86, Google is automatically hiding website notification spam on sites showing a pattern of sending abusive notification content to visitors. The “quiet notification permission UI” used to hide the web alert spam from users was introduced in Chrome 80 and improved Read more…

New Google Chrome Version Fixes Actively Exploited Zero-Day Bug Google has released Chrome 86.0.4240.111 today, October 20th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel to address five security vulnerabilities, one of them an actively exploited zero-day bug. “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2020-15999 exists in the wild,” the Google Chrome 86.0.4240.111 announcement reads. Read more…

The US Government Sues Google For Alleged Anticompetitive Abuses In Search Washington(CNN Business) – The Trump administration on Tuesday sued Google in what is the largest antitrust case against a tech company in more than two decades. In its complaint, the Justice Department makes sweeping allegations that Google (GOOG) has stifled competition to Read more…

Google Chrome And Edge Are Creating Random Debug.log Log Files A bug in the latest release of Chrome, and other Chromium-based browsers, is causing random debug.log files to be created on user’s desktops and other folders. On October 6th, 2020, Google released Chrome 86 to the ‘Stable’ branch, and all users Read more…

Google Warned Users Of 33,000 State-Sponsored Attacks in 2020 Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of state-sponsored phishing attacks targeting their accounts. “In these cases, we also shared our findings with the campaigns and the Federal Bureau of Read more…

Google Is Pushing Zoom Out Of Gmail By Default Starting Today Google is pushing its Zoom competitor, Google Meet, on as default in Gmail calendar invites November 16th, but notifying users that they can make this feature live now. November 16th the switch is flicked for them. The new setting Read more…

Google Boosts Malware Protection For High-risk Accounts Google has added improved malware protection for all Google Chrome users who are also enrolled in the company’s Advanced Protection Program (APP). Google’s Advanced Protection Program is a free service that aims to protect the accounts of users including but not limited to activists, journalists, business leaders, Read more…

Chrome 86 Rolls Out With Massive User Security Enhancements Google has released Chrome 86 today, October 6th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes numerous security enhancements, features, and APIs for developers. Chrome 86 brings many security enhancements to both desktop and mobile users in the form of increased password Read more…

Google Releases Fix For ChromeOS Bug Causing 100% CPU Utilization Google has released a temporary fix for a ChromeOS bug that causes 100% CPU utilization in Chromebooks. Last week, BleepingComputer broke the story that the ChromeOS 85.0.4183.108 update caused Google Play’s ‘com.android.vending:download_service’ service to utilize 100% of the CPU. According to Google, the Read more…

Chrome 86 For iOS Fixes Orientation Bug That Broke Web Page Layouts Google has released Chrome 86 for iOS today, and it fixes an annoying issue that caused a web page rendering issue after rotating the device to landscape and back to portrait. Since the release of Chrome 85, users Read more…