Don’t forget to save whatever you are working on, as the browser needs to reload when completed. If an update is available, it will automatically start downloading. This will display the version you are currently on. Click on the Menu button in the top-right corner (three stacked dots).Here’s how you update your Chrome browser: Or is it some dangerous hooded hacker typing away lines of lethal code on his keyboard and ready to break into anyones online world In fact, pretty much.
Updated versions will include security updates, and sometimes it will have new features too.
You should always make sure that you are on the latest version of any software that you use. It seemed severe enough to warrant its own security patch, as Google usually bundles them together. The latest update comes after Google rushed to fix another zero-day exploit at the end of September. It added that hackers figured out a way to trick Windows into accepting code signatures that OpenSSL code could not detect in certain security clearance scanners.Įssentially a hacker could give themselves access to a building or website through their clearance. Google is also planning to remove things like 'non-consensual explicit or intimate personal images,' pornographic deep fakes, or links to sites with 'exploitative removal practices.'Īs per reports from The Verge, Google is providing the new options because 'the internet is always evolving' and its search engine giving out your phone number or home address can be quite dangerous.Google’s threat analysis group (TAG) explained that two of the flaws are considered zero-day exploits and mark the 13th such flaw of the year. Meanwhile, Google has announced an expansion of the list of personal content that it's planning to remove from search results to cover things like physical address, phone number, passwords, credit card numbers, bank account IDs, or photos of your handwritten signatures. Read latest on personal information and search results However, the browser will automatically update within a few days. The company also said that the users can manually update their browsers through the settings features.
"We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel," the company stated.
The company said that it will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed. "Until a majority of users are updated with a fix" other hack details are currently being restricted by the company. ALSO READ | You think videoconferencing is the new normal? But it hinders creativity, study claims
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