{"id":4153,"date":"2020-02-28T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2020-02-28T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:15:09","slug":"google-chrome-urgent-security-warning-feb-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome &#8211; Urgent Security Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.1&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b><strong>Security Advisory \u2013 Google Chrome<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4155\" src=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ChomeFix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"278\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google has reported a security issue in the Chrome browser. This issue is known to attackers and it is already being exploited by some.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All versions of Chrome are affected<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Google have released an update for Windows, Mac and Linux users. There is not yet an update available for Mobile Devices (IOS or Android) or Chrome OS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For all Windows, Mac or Linux devices,<\/strong> we recommend that you check the version of Chrome that you are running, and update immediately if you have an earlier version than 80.0.3987.122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To check on your PC\/Mac Chrome browser, open Chrome and paste the following into the address bar:<\/p>\n<p><em>chrome:\/\/settings\/help<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability relates to how cookies are used, and in this case to protect you from a &#8220;cross-site request&#8221; forgery, where innocent end users could be tricked by an attacker into submitting a web request that they did not intend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All devices supported with either KARE Core Fundamentals or KARE Premium KARE are being updated for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qualys.com\/research\/security-alerts\/2011-02-08\/google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.qualys.com\/research\/security-alerts\/2011-02-08\/google\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Security Advisory \u2013 Google Chrome &nbsp; Google has reported a security issue in the Chrome browser. This issue is known to attackers and it is already being exploited by some. All versions of Chrome are affected. &nbsp; Google have released an update for Windows, Mac and Linux users. There is not yet an update [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"&nbsp;\n\n<b>[header2 text=\"<strong>Security Advisory \u2013 Google Chrome<\/strong><\/b><b>\" align=\"left\" color=\"#336A40\" margintop=\"\"]<\/b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-4155\" src=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ChomeFix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"278\" \/><\/strong>\n\nGoogle has reported a security issue in the Chrome browser. This issue is known to attackers and it is already being exploited by some.\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All versions of Chrome are affected<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n&nbsp;\n\nGoogle have released an update for Windows, Mac and Linux users. There is not yet an update available for Mobile Devices (IOS or Android) or Chrome OS.\n\n<strong>For all Windows, Mac or Linux devices,<\/strong> we recommend that you check the version of Chrome that you are running, and update immediately if you have an earlier version than 80.0.3987.122.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo check on your PC\/Mac Chrome browser, open Chrome and paste the following into the address bar:\n\n<em>chrome:\/\/settings\/help<\/em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe vulnerability relates to how cookies are used, and in this case to protect you from a \"cross-site request\" forgery, where innocent end users could be tricked by an attacker into submitting a web request that they did not intend.\n\n<strong>All devices supported with either KARE Core Fundamentals or KARE Premium KARE are being updated for you.<\/strong>\n\nFor more information please visit: [wow_colorme]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qualys.com\/research\/security-alerts\/2011-02-08\/google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.qualys.com\/research\/security-alerts\/2011-02-08\/google\/<\/a>[\/wow_colorme]","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}