IBM’s X-Force security team discovers a high-risk vulnerability in the Android platform opening phones up to DoS and elevation of privilege vulnerabilities.
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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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