Google has issued a high-severity security warning for billions of Chrome browser users across Windows, Mac, Linux and Android—don’t ignore it, act now to stay safe.
There’s a danger that with so many security alerts hitting the headlines, warning apathy can kick in. Yet that would be a mistake, a big one. Whether it’s dealing with the fallout of, you need to take them all seriously. Which is why you really shouldn’t ignore this latest security alert for billions of Google Chrome web browser users across all platforms except iOS—here’s what you need to know and do.
which earned Alan Goodman a bounty of $8,000, is an out of bounds memory access vulnerability in the same V8 engine. The latter, SecurityVulnerability.io experts said, can be “potentially exploited by attackers through a specially crafted HTML page, leading to heap corruption. Such vulnerabilities may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, posing significant security risks to users who visit malicious or compromised web pages,” while the first is so serious that “it is crucial for users to update their browsers to maintain security and prevent exploitation.
Go to the Help|About option in your Google Chrome menu and this will automatically start a check for any updates as well as initiate the download process. However, the most critical part of that process comes after the download and that’s the update activation. To ensure this you must restart your browser, save any tabs you have open, and do that to be protected. The following screenshots show how to update your Google Chrome browser and activate the new security fixes.
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