Fwiw, "urgent" update to Chrome

[UTUSN]

I think cluelessly low tech me was able to do the laptop and maybe the android. The Kindle no, since it has its own "Silk" browser.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13780805/Urgent-Chrome-update-ignore-theres-high-risk-hacked.html

Urgent Chrome update you can't ignore because there's a 'high' risk of being hacked

The new vulnerability is part of a pattern with Chrome's JavaScript engine V8, which has become 'especially attractive for real-world attackers,' as one Google cybersecurity expert warned.

In layman's terms, the newly uncovered flaw in Chrome allows hackers to take control of your browser via malicious code hidden within a falsified HTML webpage. ....

The new exploit, if successful, could be used to steal passwords from Chrome's Google Password Manager, credit card 'autofill' information and more — all before a Chrome user has even suspected that their system has been compromised. ....

From there (3 dots), go to the 'Help' menu and click on 'About Chrome.' The new page will show you the latest updates and may automatically update them, unless the device is a workplace computer in need of administrator privileges requiring IT assistance. ....

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Wish Google would get it together. Oh wait they're Alphabet now. Was that a good conversion?

Few people are aware there is Chrome and then there is Chromium. I never know if updates apply to Chromium. But it updates on Linux automatically, reinstalled itself today so I assume it's ok with this update. Unless it's not.

[UTUSN]

2. Ha, since you know stuff, picking your brain:

1- DU related, the Rec function on individual posts, how come it doesn't show the names of Rec--er like on the OP Rec?

2- My next door neighbors are virtually family, young couple with 3 kids, we help each other. The youngest child started school and the stay at home mom enrolled in community college, excited to use a laptop. My router is at our shared yard. Will they be able to connect from my router?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Wow that's a lot of trust to place in me, butt

1 - I don't know. Not programmed that way I would guess. It's a measure of popularity rather than recommendation from individuals.

2 - It's tough to say for sure, people who know the equipment better would have a more informed opinion. Distance can be a subtle thing with routers. I can get signal 250 feet away from neighbors, I think both router and cable router. But outside my public library, which has brick/block walls with triple glazed windows, I can't sit in my car 55 feet away and get signal. I have to be 20 feet outside the front door.

And they would need your password and software setup to connect with your router and wifi. Now if they were good hackers they would know how to do this. Supposedly back in the day, although it was technically illegal,, people could use a "cantenna" to concentrate wifi signal and somehow login or around it. I don't think that's done very much anymore. Cantenna was a tin can or funnel pointed here or there to find signal strength. I guess they had wires that fed into the modem port.

[canetoad]

4. UTSN is my friend, don't call him Butt

I use Brave browser, which is built on Chromium but all up to date.

[UTUSN]

6. Hah!

[bucolic_frolic]

7. This computer is on its last legs

In the mornning, the right side of the keyboard won't type. Then later I get random repeats on other keys, and rapid repeats on some. butt was such.

[canetoad]

8. Sunday morning

Picture it. First coffee went everywhere on my desk. Made a new one. Bloody same thing happened. That keyboard has gone to god.

[UTUSN]

5. Thanks. I just know that that young lady is going to be messaging me

to Print stuff and who knows what, will have assignments on internet