If you have not seen, Chrome has been updated to version 12.0.742.91 [1] and with this release brings some nice updates. You can check the official blog post by Google [2] for a long list of enhancements and security fixes. Of particular interest are the safe browsing enhancements [3]. Chrome has added some malicious file detection. Not sure if this is in response to the exploit claim that was made some months back but one could speculate [4]. If you are running Chrome it is advised that you update when it becomes available.

[1] http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/06/chrome-stable-release.html

[2] http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/06/chrome-12-safer-and-snazzier.html

[3] http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/more/security.html

[4] http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=10852

Richard Porter

--- ISC Handler on Duty