Critical Vulnerabilities Found in LastPass Extensions
For the second time in a few months, LastPass had to address serious security flaws in its password manager browser extensions, this time in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The two new vulnerabilities, one involving a website connector bug and the other being a Firefox based message hijacking bug, were discovered by Tavis Ormandy, […]
Google Is Now Testing Post-Quantum Crypto in Chrome
Google is beginning an experiment in Chrome to test a new post-quantum cryptographic algorithm designed to secure encrypted communications for many decades to come. The test is Google’s attempt to see how resistant the algorithm is to attacks by quantum computers, a next-generation kind of machine that uses quantum bits and the principles of quantum […]