Its always possible something was corrupted, or the combination of settings caused a problem. I will never install another OS update until it reaches Current Branch for Business (now called Semi-Annual Channel for some stupid reason) - about 3 months from now ( Windows 10 release information - current branch, build history). Use either of these two commands: sudo iptables -S. Despite this, you still need to update Chrome right away. Open a terminal and check to see that both incoming and outgoing traffic are allowed on ports 80 and 443. Yes, Chrome critics have plenty of legitimate reasons to attack the browser, from memory consumption to privacy options, but security is not one of them.
In fact, all three of Chrome’s 2023 Zero Day exploits were found by Google's Threat Analysis Group. Chrome is based on Chromium, as are many other rival browsers, and the same vulnerabilities affect all these variants as well, but only Google is consistently declaring them.Īs the creator of Chromium, Google is also the first to issue patches and many of vulnerabilities are discovered in-house. In 2022, Google paid over $12M in bug bounties, including a record bounty of $605,000 for one critical exploit.Ĭonsequently, while casual observers may think Google’s continual reporting of vulnerabilities means Chrome is more insecure, the opposite is true. As I have written before, Google’s robust reporting system and payment of high bounties for vulnerabilities encourages security researchers to sell their discoveries to Google rather than hackers.
