Google has patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows version of Chrome, including one that earned its finder the first $1,337 check from the company's new bug bounty program.
Like Apple, which updated Safari last week, Google beefed up the security of its browser just days before the Pwn2Own browser hacking contest was to kick off in Canada.
The update to Chrome 4.1.249.1036 fixes six flaws rated "high," the second-most-severe ranking in Google's four-step threat system; plugs three "medium" holes; and quashes two "low" bugs.
Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable. We see it almost every day.
Fake antivirus programs that encourage Web users to part with their hard-earned cash and download hoax security software is likely to be the most costly scam of 2010, says McAfee.
According to the security firm, cybercriminals make upwards of $300 million from conning web users worldwide into downloading scareware.
The security firm also said it had seen a 660 percent rise in scareware over the pasantivirus scarewaret two years, and a 400 percent increase in reported incidents in the last 12 months.
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