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Friday, March 08, 2019

Immediately Update Your Google Chrome Browser to Patch Vulnerability

Google has revealed that a recent update to its Chrome web browser includes a fix for a bug which could leave the browser vulnerable to hackers.

Google recently warned that a recent update to its Chrome web browser included a fix for a zero-day exploit that hackers were actively attempting to crack. ZDnet reports that the hack exploited a security flaw named CVE-2019-5786, a patch to this issue was included in a version of Chrome released on March 1st; the version number was 72.0.3626.121.

Google revealed the issue in an announcement where the security lead of the Chrome browser stated that the bug which has since been patched was actively under attack by hackers at the time that it was patched.

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