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New address spoofing flaw smudges Google's Chrome

Daniel Fleshbourne   via The Register on 27 October 2008 - 10:51 · 5 comments & 1696 views

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Google's Chrome browser has been marred by yet another vulnerability, this one allowing attackers to impersonate websites of groups like the Better Business Bureau, PayPal or, well, Google. Researcher Liu Die Yu of the TopsecTianRongXin research lab in Beijing says the spoofing vulnerability is the result of faulty code inserted by programmers from the Mountain View, California search behemoth.

"I don't see Apple Safari vulnerable in the same way," he writes in an email to The Register. "They share the same engine(webkit)."

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(3 replies) #1 Exosphere on 27 Oct 2008 - 13:57
marred by yet another vulnerability ?

It's a beta, that's what happens, once it's released fully this sort of news is more important.
#1.1 akav0id on 27 Oct 2008 - 14:32
aye, but it's a public beta and I bet there are some people using it who really don't understand what the term beta means
#1.2 random_n on 27 Oct 2008 - 18:00
Google's been abusing the "Beta" term for quite a while. If there's confusion with regards to the development status of Chrome, it's pretty much entirely their fault.
#1.3 +Chrono951 on 27 Oct 2008 - 19:24
random_n said,
Google's been abusing the "Beta" term for quite a while. If there's confusion with regards to the development status of Chrome, it's pretty much entirely their fault.


Exactly. Lets not forget the 4 year "beta" of gmail so far. I think they are just keeping it beta to cover for any mistakes they make. Think if Vista was still labeled "beta". People couldn't complain because its "still beta".
#2 Hak Foo on 28 Oct 2008 - 06:34
"Beta" is Google's "Trainee" badge.

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