Google Chrome Now Checks For Weak Passwords, Helps Fix Them Google has added a new feature to the Chrome web browser that will make it easier to check if their stored passwords are weak and easy to guess, exposing users to brute force attacks or password cracking attempts. The new feature will Read more…
Google Search Bug Freezes Tabs When Using A Custom Date Range A bug in Google Search is causing a browser tab to freeze when searching between a specified range of dates. Google has a search feature under the Tools > Any Time drop-down menu that allows you to search for Read more…
Google Chrome 88 Released: RIP Flash Player And FTP Support Google has released Chrome 88 today, January 19th, 2021, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes security improvements and the long-awaited removal of Adobe Flash Player. Chrome 88 is now promoted to the Stable channel, Chrome 89 is the Read more…
Google To Kill Chrome Sync Feature In Third-party Browsers Google says that it will block third-party Chromium web browsers from using private Google APIs after discovering that they were integrating them although they’re intended to be used only in Chrome. This is because many of the Google APIs included in Read more…
Google Discloses Hacking Campaign Targeting Windows, Android Users Project Zero, Google’s 0day bug-hunting team, revealed a hacking campaign coordinated by “a highly sophisticated actor” and targeting Windows and Android users with zero-day and n-day exploits. The Project Zero team, in collaboration with the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), discovered a watering Read more…
Google Chrome Fixes Antivirus ‘File Locking’ Bug On Windows 10 Google Chrome has fixed a bug that enabled antivirus programs on Windows 10 to lock newly created files. The patching of the bug means antivirus programs running on Windows would no longer block new files generated by the Chrome web browser, such as Read more…
Google Chrome Is Testing Larger Cache Sizes To Increase Performance Google is experimenting with increased storage for the browser cache to reduce the performance hit caused by the recently added partitioned cache feature. Before Chrome 85, the browser used a single storage bucket to store cached resources, such as images, Read more…
Google Is Bringing Discover To Other Chromium Browsers According to new code references found in the open-source Chromium platform, Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi and Brave should soon be able to take advantage of Google’s personalized news feed called ‘Discover’. Google Discover (previously known as Google Feed or Google Now Feed) is a Read more…
Google Explains The Cause Of The Recent YouTube, Gmail Outage Google says that the global authentication system outage which affected most consumer-facing series on Monday was caused by a bug in the automated quota management system impacting the Google User ID Service. This worldwide system failure prevented users from logging into their accounts and authenticate to Read more…
Google Chrome Disables Insecure Form Warnings After Complaints Google has disabled a feature that displays a warning when submitting insecure forms after receiving many complaints from users and website administrators. Google has been focusing on removing mixed-content in Google Chrome, when a secure page (HTTPS) loads content from an insecure (HTTP) Read more…
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