New Google Chrome Security Alert For 3.5 Billion Users

When around 40% of the population of the planet uses the same web browser, security issues that impact it become an equally big thing. With an estimated 3.5 billion users, Google Chrome is that browser, and a new alert has just been issued concerning the latest security update. Although this one concerns only three cataloged vulnerabilities, compared to the quite staggering 60 Chrome security flaws as I reported at the start of the month, that doesn’t make it a non-story. According to Chrome’s Srinivas Sista, the latest update actually fixes 19 security issues, but only the three vulnerabilities disclosed by external researchers have been listed in the update alert.

The good news, of course, is that Google has started rolling out an update for all Chrome users that addresses all of the security issues that have been found. The bad is that Google has acknowledged it could take days, or even weeks, to…