Google is rolling out patches to address a serious security flaw in its Chrome browser that Google says has been actively exploited in the wild. The flaw (identified as CVE-2024-7971) is a confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine and WebAssembly (thanks to The Hacker News). Google acknowledged the flaw in a blog post stating … Read more
Roblox reported more than 13,000 incidents of child exploitation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2023, and around 24 predators were arrested for grooming and abusing victims on the hugely popular social gaming platform in the US. This figure represents an increase compared to the 3,000 of the previous year. Roblox … Read more
Google has released this month's Android security updates, which contain fixes for 46 different vulnerabilities, including one that is actively being exploited. zero-day vulnerability. As reported by Computer beepthe zero-day in question (tracked as CVE-2024-36971) is a use after release vulnerability in the Linux kernel used by Android to control network route management. Although exploiting … Read more