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Update Chrome now to patch actively exploited zero-day
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Update Chrome now to patch actively exploited zero-day

Enlarge / It’s a good time to restart or update Chrome—if your tabs love you, they’ll come back. (credit: Getty Images) Google announced an update on Wednesday to the Stable channel of its Chrome browser that includes a fix for an exploit that exists in the wild. CVE-2022-2856 is a fix for “insufficient validation of...

iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years, researcher claims
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iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years, researcher claims

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A security researcher says that Apple’s iOS devices don’t fully route all network traffic through VPNs as a user might expect, a potential security issue the device maker has known about for years. Michael Horowitz, a longtime computer security blogger and researcher, puts it plainly—if contentiously—in a continually updated blog post....

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Chrome “Feed” is tantalizing, but it’s not the return of Google Reader

Enlarge / Digging into bleeding-edge Chrome code has made some bloggers hopeful, but Google has been focused on its own feeds for a while now. (credit: Getty Images) Does Google enjoy teasing and sometimes outright torturing some of its products’ most devoted fans? It can seem that way. Tucked away inside a recent bleeding-edge Chrome...

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1,900 Signal users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio phishing

Enlarge / Signal’s security-minded messaging app is dealing with a third-party phishing attempt that exposed a small number of users’ phone numbers. (credit: Getty Images) A successful phishing attack at SMS services company Twilio may have exposed the phone numbers of roughly 1,900 users of the secure messaging app Signal—but that’s about the extent of...