Is Your Chrome Browser Up To Date?
Chrome has 3.2 billion users worldwide and now every single one of them needs to act because Google has confirmed multiple new hacks of its browser. Here is everything you need to know to stay safe.
Google released the news on its official blog, confirming 11 successful Chrome hacks have been discovered, nine of which it says pose a ‘High’ threat level. The hacks affect Chrome running on every major platform, including Windows, Mac and Linux.
As for the hacks themselves, they remain top secret with Google warning that “Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix.” In short, Google is buying users time to protect themselves. Consequently, all we know right now are the threat levels, trackers, areas of exploitation and source:
- High – CVE-2022-1305: Use after free in storage. Reported by Anonymous on 2022-01-07
- High – CVE-2022-1306: Inappropriate implementation in compositing. Reported by Sven Dysthe on 2022-02-21
- High – CVE-2022-1307: Inappropriate implementation in full screen. Reported by Irvan Kurniawan (sourc7) on 2022-03-01
- High – CVE-2022-1308: Use after free in BFCache. Reported by Samet Bekmezci @sametbekmezci on 2021-12-28
- High – CVE-2022-1309: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools. Reported by David Erceg on 2020-07-17
- High – CVE-2022-1310: Use after free in regular expressions. Reported by Brendon Tiszka on 2022-03-18
- High – CVE-2022-1311: Use after free in Chrome OS shell. Reported by Nan Wang(@eternalsakura13) and Guang Gong of 360 Alpha Lab on 2022-03-28
- High – CVE-2022-1312: Use after free in storage. Reported by Leecraso and Guang Gong of 360 Vulnerability Research Institute on 2022-03-30
- Medium – CVE-2022-1313: Use after free in tab groups. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2021-11-16
- Medium – CVE-2022-1314: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Bohan Liu (@P4nda20371774) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab on 2022-03-09
Following several high-profile V8 attacks, ‘Use-After-Free’ (UAF) exploits once again dominate the Chrome threats and have now cracked Chrome security approximately 55x in 2022. Moreover, successful Chrome attacks are increasing in frequency — something Google acknowledges but also defends.
For the full Google article, please visit – https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_11.html
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The Perfect Google Maps Feature If You’re Walking Alone
Google Maps and Apple Maps are constant companions for more people and help them find their way around all kinds of interesting places and some pretty dull ones too. But there is a very big problem with using your maps app in an unfamiliar place: they can make it look very obvious that you’re not from around here, and that you don’t know where you’re going.
That’s a worry for anybody, but it’s particularly worrying for women and other marginalised people who have good reasons to be wary on unfamiliar streets.
The good news is that both Apple Maps and Google Maps have features that tell you where to go without requiring you to look at your phone at all. The Apple option uses the Apple Watch, and the Google one works on your phone – not just Android phones but iPhones too.
Get Silent Notifications In Google Maps
Google Maps makes it easy to get vibrations instead of audible notifications. All you need to do is tap on the volume icon in the app in walking mode and then choose the Muted option. This will give you two different vibration patterns so you know exactly where to go. Imagine these as Morse Code messages:
- dash-dot-dot: turn right
- dot-dash-dash: turn left
Brilliant, isn’t it? Just remember to put your phone somewhere you’ll feel the vibration – a pocket rather than in your bag.
Get Silent Notifications In Apple Maps
If you have an Apple Watch, you don’t need to do anything: you’ll get vibrations through your watch automatically whether you’re walking, driving or on public transport unless you’ve turned this feature off in the Watch app on your iPhone. Once again there are different vibrations depending on what you need to do:
- dot-dot… dot-dot… dot-dot: turn left
- dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot: turn right
If you don’t want these vibrations when you’re not walking – they drive me daft when I’m in the car – you can switch off vibrations in the Watch app: My Watch > Maps > Turn Alerts.
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Creating An Immersive Experience For Your Business
Did you know that when searching for businesses, consumers use mapping products 44% of the time?.* As well as that, on average, 41% of these place searches result in an on-site visit.*
Choosing the right restaurant, bar or hotel can often be tricky, particularly if you haven’t been there before. With the updates to Google Street View, you now have the option to help build a level of trust by letting potential customers experience your location before they arrive.
Creating An Immersive Experience
By offering an experience that is immersive and fresh, a virtual experience can help to play a key role in drawing inspire greater confidence among prospective customers and visitors.
Google quotes a survey** on their own website which highlights the positive impact that can be achieved by incorporating more images and offering a more immersive experience on your listing.
The parameters of the study are as follows:
- An online survey was conducted with consumers who had searched online for a restaurant or hotel within the previous 30 days (using any device).
- A total sample of 1201 respondents was collected between July 21st and August 2nd, 2015.
- Different versions of a local business listing (one for a hotel, the other for a restaurant) were created to include basic info, photos and/or a virtual tour (the same media were used to create each version).
- Respondents were asked to view one of the different versions for each business (in a randomised order). Each respondent viewed:
- 1 hotel listing + 1 restaurant listing; and
- 1 listing with a virtual tour + 1 listing without a virtual tour.
Note: Presentation of alternate listings were randomized evenly and consistently throughout the field.
- After viewing each listing, respondents were instructed to rate their interest in booking a reservation.
- Ratings for alternate listings (with a tour versus without) were aggregated to understand the impact of virtual tours on interest in the featured business.
With 44% of consumers using map-related products all of the time, this is an area that must be tapped into if you would like to take a step ahead of your competition.
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