Custom Web browser from Comodo poses security threat, researcher says

A customized version of Google’s Chrome browser developed by security vendor Comodo has a jaw-dropping flaw, according to a researcher.

Tavis Ormandy, an information security engineer with Google, analyzed Comodo’s “Chromodo,” a browser based on the Chromium open-source code.

Chromodo is marketed as a browser with enhanced security and privacy controls. But Ormandy found it contains a flaw that violates one of the most basic rules for Web security.

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