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Google has just issued an emergency Chrome update for desktop users, warning that an exploit for a serious security vulnerability now “exists in the wild.”for Windows and Mac, and 128.0.6613.84 for Linux.
It should download to your PC automatically, but you will need to check and restart the browser to ensure it installs.—the vulnerability that has been successfully attacked—is a type confusion in V8, a typical memory issue for a Chrome zero-day, which “allows a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.” This means an attacker can potentially exploit this to destabilize a PC, compromise data or execute rogue code. The vulnerability was found and reported by Microsoft. As ever, Google is withholding any more detailed information “until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.”Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Thursday, August 22 ‘Institutions Are Coming’—$35 Trillion U.S. Dollar Collapse Predicted To Trigger A Bitcoin Price Boom To Rival Gold
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