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Though the current bug has been patched, Oberheide says Web bugs like the one he found are too common for Google to allow installation of phone apps from the Web without warning.
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Unlike other challenges released by Overthewire, Natas focuses exclusively on exploiting web security bugs in servers, according to its creator, Steven Van Acker, a computer science graduate student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
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Hansen split his dumptruck of Web-browsing bugs into three categories of severity: About half are low-level threats, 10 or so are medium, and two are critical.
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But the Chiasso, Switzerland-based company has a serious purpose: It offers an eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people )-style Web auction platform for security bugs.
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Sandboxed or not, the security of Chrome's users will depend on who finds those bugs first, says Web security guru and White Hat Security Chief Technology Officer Jeremiah Grossman.
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He exposed a flaw in the Web that lets evildoers hijack traffic, among the most serious bugs in the Internet's history.
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