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By mswatcher
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Published: Sep 04 2008 / 12:59

Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference — to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser.
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shemnon replied ago:

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Voted down because I feel DZone should be a place for non-mainstream tech news sources, not another vector for paid journalists. Try Digg for that.

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