The concept of privacy on the Internet is naive at best. Fact is everybody tracks what you do online. Collusion for Chrome, however will show you exactly where your information goes when you’re served a cookie.
Collusion is a simple extension for the Chrome browser and is currently available at the Chrome Web Store. According to the developer, disconnect.me,
Thousands of companies and organizations secretly collect your personal data when you use the web, creating a shadow web of connections between sites you go to and trackers you probably never heard of. Collusion for Chrome graphs the spread of your data from sites to trackers, in real time, to expose these hidden connections.
The extension sits quietly in your browser bar, monitoring those shadow connections and generating a graph like the one above. It represents roughly 15 minutes of my web surfing. The circled planets are ones I’ve actually visited, the halo-less ones I have not. Red circles indicate a known tracking site, grey ones are potential trackers, and blue ones are originating sites.
And, while you can’t actually do much to actually stop the tracking, it’s interesting to see how exactly your information just sort of, well, leaks as you move about the ‘Net. [Chrome Web Store via Bianca Bosker
Article source: http://gizmodo.com/5902855/collusion-for-chrome-reveals-whos-spying-on-your-surfing
Tags: Chrome Web Store
In order to unify the Chrome experience across all devices that use the Chrome browser, the development team at Google is testing a new way to sync tab information between devices.
Included in the beta test of Google Chrome 19, the next major release of the Web browser will include the ability to sync open tabs between different devices. Assuming that the user has the browser open on both devices and is logged in with the same profile, they can access all open pages by clicking the new “Other Devices” option in the bottom right hand corner of a new tab page. For instance, if a user is reading a particular article or series of articles on a work computer, they can open up the tab on a laptop, desktop or tablet located at home without having to type in the URL or search for each page.
In addition to pulling up the current URL within the tab, the syncing process also brings over page history as well. Users can navigate backward and forward through the tab’s history and current tabs that are open on the device won’t be closed when the new “Other Devices” tab is launched.
Beyond the new tab sync feature within Chrome 19, the beta version of the software includes a smattering of bug fixes and performance tweaks. Issues with 3D graphics on NVIDIA GPUs has been fixed as well as errors with incognito windows.
Regarding desktop to mobile syncing, Google is working on a solution that will be built into Chrome 20. If a user has pulled up directions to a new restaurant on a desktop computer, but forgotten to print out the details, they could bring up the directions immediately on a synced Android 4.0 mobile phone.
This feature will replace the Google Chrome to Phone extension that’s currently available on the Chrome Web Store. Google is also expected to include updates to Native Client, a solution for high-end gaming through the Web browser, within Chrome 19 and Chrome 20.
Article source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-starts-testing-device-syncing-for-chrome/
Tags: Chrome Web Store, Google Chrome, Native Client, URL
In order to unify the Chrome experience across all devices that use the Chrome browser, the development team at Google is testing a new way to sync tab information between devices.
Included in the beta test of Google Chrome 19, the next major release of the Web browser will include the ability to sync open tabs between different devices. Assuming that the user has the browser open on both devices and is logged in with the same profile, they can access all open pages by clicking the new “Other Devices” option in the bottom right hand corner of a new tab page. For instance, if a user is reading a particular article or series of articles on a work computer, they can open up the tab on a laptop, desktop or tablet located at home without having to type in the URL or search for each page.
In addition to pulling up the current URL within the tab, the syncing process also brings over page history as well. Users can navigate backward and forward through the tab’s history and current tabs that are open on the device won’t be closed when the new “Other Devices” tab is launched.
Beyond the new tab sync feature within Chrome 19, the beta version of the software includes a smattering of bug fixes and performance tweaks. Issues with 3D graphics on NVIDIA GPUs has been fixed as well as errors with incognito windows.
Regarding desktop to mobile syncing, Google is working on a solution that will be built into Chrome 20. If a user has pulled up directions to a new restaurant on a desktop computer, but forgotten to print out the details, they could bring up the directions immediately on a synced Android 4.0 mobile phone.
This feature will replace the Google Chrome to Phone extension that’s currently available on the Chrome Web Store. Google is also expected to include updates to Native Client, a solution for high-end gaming through the Web browser, within Chrome 19 and Chrome 20.
Article source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-starts-testing-device-syncing-for-chrome/
Tags: Chrome Web Store, Google Chrome, Native Client, URL
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Article source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/04/google-updates-chrome-web-store/
Tags: Chrome Web Store, Year Entry Form
Google has introduced some changes to its Chrome Web Store that should make navigating the plethora of available apps and extensions an easier ordeal. A brand new Trending section now lists the hottest offerings, ranking each from “warm” to “on fire” to indicate popularity among Chrome users. (Download Master, a game called Conveyer, and MLB.com’s Scoreboard extension currently sit atop the list.) Google specifically refers to the view as being an “early version” suggesting that we can expect the feature to evolve some going forward. While a redesign back in October modernized the site’s UI, it didn’t help much in terms of usability, and the Store’s sorting and browsing tools have long needed an update.
You’ll also now have an easier time locating apps that include a specific functionality such as offline support. Google has added badges to the landing page of each app or extension that indicate these unique abilities, and users can simply click on a badge to view other downloads that share the same behavior. Another recent addition, subcategories, help dig a bit deeper into the store’s catalog, splitting broad areas like “Entertainment” into more specific pages for books, music, video, and photos. Finally, Google promises an improved search experience that now incorporates autocomplete suggestions for web store content.
Article source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/4/2925590/google-chrome-web-store-update-trending-subcategories
Tags: Chrome Web Store, Download Master, MLB, UI
Google has just announced some improvements to the Chrome Web Store that they hope will make “finding the right app and extension easier.”
Over the past few weeks, we’ve introduced several new features to make it easier to discover new apps and extensions. These can be especially helpful, as the number of apps and extensions in the Chrome Web Store has grown to the tens of thousands.
One of those new features, subcategories for apps, was added to the Web Store recently. Now, a new crop of improvements like Trending view, autocomplete search, and app badges join the party.
First, Trending view is currently an “early version” of what it will eventually be, says Google. Located under the “Popular” tab on the left hand side, the Trending view shows apps and extensions that are “growing fastest” in the Web Store. The speed of their growth is ranked from “warm” to “on fire.”
The new app badges appear on the landing pages of some apps. They are clickable, and generate a list of similar apps – or “apps that have the same functionality.” The two types of app badges you can currently see in the store are “playable on Google+” and “offline,” meaning that particular app will work offline.
Lastly, the search box now has autocomplete – a helpful addition indeed. The Chrome blog also adds that in the next few weeks, most all of the Google+ games will hit the Web Store.
Article source: http://www.webpronews.com/google-chrome-web-store-updates-2012-04
Tags: Chrome Web Store, Web Store
SANTA MONICA, CA–(Marketwire -04/03/12)- Nimble, the award-winning Social Business Platform, today announced that it is now available as an app in Google’s Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/). Nimble is a social relationship manager that empowers businesses to transform their social communities into customers for life. With Nimble’s social CRM, easily manage all your business contacts, email, social communications, activities and sales in one single place.
“Our immediate availability in the Google Chrome Web Store makes it even easier for the millions of small businesses who are leveraging social media and cloud computing to more effectively engage with their customers and grow their business,” said Gilles Marchand, Nimble’s co-founder and VP Product. “Our seamless integration with other cloud applications, such as Hubspot for social marketing, and Wufoo and MailChimp for simple low-cost marketing, makes Nimble the heart and soul of tomorrow’s social business today.”
“As a Google Apps CRM solution provider, we understand the value Nimble brings to the Google Apps community, and we are very excited to see the launch of Nimble Google Chrome Extension,” said Crisantos Hajibrahim, Managing Partner, ViWo, a leading Google Apps Reseller. “ViWo really believes that the Chrome browser and Chrome netbooks are the future for businesses in cloud computing. And with Nimble’s integration with the Chrome browser, this just proves that Nimble is thinking onward with precise vision.”
Nimble has been optimized to leverage the speed and features of the Chrome browser. While Nimble and the Chrome Web Store can be accessed using any browser, only Chrome browser users can install and add the app shortcut from the Chrome Web Store.
To find Nimble in the Chrome Web Store, users simply need to search for “Nimble” and follow the instructions for adding the app or go to: http://bit.ly/nimblechrome.
About Nimble
Since its initial launch, Nimble has quickly established itself as the leading Social Relationship Manager. Influencers around the world have recognized Nimble as a revolutionary Social Business solution. The platform has been awarded PC Magazine “Editors’ Choice,” “DEMO God,” Gartner “Cool Vendor” for Social Software and Collaboration, Red Herring Top 100 Global Finalist, and “Company to Watch” on Paul Greenberg’s “2011 CRM Watch List” “2012 CRM Watch List” published by ZDNet.
Nimble was founded in 2009 to help small businesses transform their communities into business opportunities. Nimble opens a whole new channel for businesses to engage customers in a two-way dialogue, leveraging the power of traditional CRM and social media with its web-based social CRM platform. Located in Santa Monica, Nimble is in the heart of the Southern California tech community. Please join the conversation on Nimble’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/nimble, LinkedIn and on Twitter @nimble.
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Phone: 818.307.9942
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Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nimble-crm-social-relationship-manager-070100422.html
Tags: Chrome Web Store, CRM, Email Contact Twitter, Google Apps Reseller, Managing Partner, Nimble Facebook
SANTA MONICA, CA, Apr 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
Nimble, the award-winning Social Business Platform, today
announced that it is now available as an app in Google’s Chrome Web
Store (
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ ). Nimble is a social
relationship manager that empowers businesses to transform their
social communities into customers for life. With Nimble’s social CRM,
easily manage all your business contacts, email, social
communications, activities and sales in one single place.
“Our immediate availability in the Google Chrome Web Store makes it
even easier for the millions of small businesses who are leveraging
social media and cloud computing to more effectively engage with
their customers and grow their business,” said Gilles Marchand,
Nimble’s co-founder and VP Product. “Our seamless integration with
other cloud applications, such as Hubspot for social marketing, and
Wufoo and MailChimp for simple low-cost marketing, makes Nimble the
heart and soul of tomorrow’s social business today.”
“As a Google Apps CRM solution provider, we understand the value
Nimble brings to the Google Apps community, and we are very excited
to see the launch of Nimble Google Chrome Extension,” said Crisantos
Hajibrahim, Managing Partner, ViWo, a leading Google Apps Reseller.
“ViWo really believes that the Chrome browser and Chrome netbooks are
the future for businesses in cloud computing. And with Nimble’s
integration with the Chrome browser, this just proves that Nimble is
thinking onward with precise vision.”
Nimble has been optimized to leverage the speed and features of the
Chrome browser. While Nimble and the Chrome Web Store can be accessed
using any browser, only Chrome browser users can install and add the
app shortcut from the Chrome Web Store.
To find Nimble in the Chrome Web Store, users simply need to search
for “Nimble” and follow the instructions for adding the app or go to:
http://bit.ly/nimblechrome .
About Nimble
Since its initial launch, Nimble has quickly established itself as
the leading Social Relationship Manager. Influencers around the world
have recognized Nimble as a revolutionary Social Business solution.
The platform has been awarded PC Magazine “Editors’ Choice,” “DEMO
God,” Gartner “Cool Vendor” for Social Software and Collaboration,
Red Herring Top 100 Global Finalist, and “Company to Watch” on Paul
Greenberg’s “2011 CRM Watch List” “2012 CRM Watch List” published
by ZDNet.
Nimble was founded in 2009 to help small businesses transform their
communities into business opportunities. Nimble opens a whole new
channel for businesses to engage customers in a two-way dialogue,
leveraging the power of traditional CRM and social media with its
web-based social CRM platform. Located in Santa Monica, Nimble is in
the heart of the Southern California tech community. Please join the
conversation on Nimble’s Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/nimble ,
LinkedIn and on Twitter @nimble.
Global Media Contact:
Brenda Christensen
Phone: 818.307.9942
email: Email Contact
Twitter @brendachrist
Skype: Brenda-Christensen
SOURCE: Nimble
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Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nimble-crm-social-relationship-manager-now-available-in-google-chrome-web-store-2012-04-03
Tags: Chrome Web Store, CRM, Red Herring Top, Santa Monica, Social Business, Southern California
Cybercriminals are uploading malicious Google Chrome extensions which hijack Facebook accounts to the official Chrome Web Store. The rogue extensions are advertised on Facebook by scammers and claim to do things such as “Change the color of your profile” or “Discover who visited your profile” or “Learn how to remove the virus from your Facebook profile.”
Once you install one of the rogue Chrome extensions, it gives attackers complete control over your Facebook account. The scammers then use your account to spam your friends with a tempting message suggesting they also download the malware. Furthermore, the malware also automatically Likes certain Facebook Pages as part of a pay-per-Like scheme.
That’s how the scammers make their money: they’re in the business of selling Likes, and once they accumulate enough Facebook accounts, they can give companies quite a boost on users’ News Feeds by Liking corresponding Facebook Pages. In one example, scammers offered packages of 1,000, 10,000, 50,000, and 100,000 Likes, for R$ 50 ($28), R$ 450 ($248), R$2,115 ($1,164), and R$3,990 (2,196), respectively.
As you can see in the screenshot above, one such rogue extension masqueraded as Adobe Flash Player. Before it was reported to Google so that the search giant could remove it from the Chrome Web Store, it had already been installed by almost 1,000 users. Unfortunately, when such malicious extensions are taken down by Google, new ones quickly take their place, along with new Facebook spam campaigns. The result is thousands of compromised Facebook accounts.
“We reported this malicious extension to Google and they removed it quickly,” Kaspersky Lab Expert Fabio Assolini said in a statement. “But we noted the bad guys behind this malicious scheme are uploading new extensions regularly, in a cat and mouse game.”
The security firm says it has seen a sudden increase in such attacks originating from Brazil. This might be because of two Internet milestones that happened late last year: Chrome surpassed Internet Explorer to become the most popular browser (according to StatCounter) and Facebook became the most popular social network (see Facebook finally overtakes Google Orkut in Brazil).
Since the scams, which have been around for weeks, are written in Portuguese, they are mainly confined to Portuguese-speaking Chrome and Facebook users. It wouldn’t take much, however, to have them translated into English and other languages. Both Facebook and Google will have to work to fight this one.
Malicious browser add-ons and extensions are not a new strategy for scammers. That being said, leveraging the official Chrome Web Store is a smart move, because users are more likely to trust an extension that looks like it was approved by Google. It doesn’t help that many legitimate Chrome extensions exist for altering Facebook (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Furthermore, few users know that browser extensions can intercept everything they do through the browser. This means changing your password won’t help you if an extension is performing unauthorized actions on active sessions while you browse the Web.
“Be careful when using Facebook,” Assolini warned. “And think twice before installing a Google Chrome extension.”
See also:
Article source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/malicious-google-chrome-extensions-hijack-facebook-accounts/11074
Tags: Chrome Web Store, Facebook Immune System, Facebook Pages, Google Chrome
Then Kasperskys Fabio Assolini, a lab expert, said one bit of malware especially caught his team’s attention because the malicious extension was hosted on Googles own Chrome Web Store. “At this time,” Assolini said in a March 23 blog, “the malicious app has 923 users.”
The extension presented itself as Adobe Flash Player. After installation, the extension could gain complete control of the victims profile first by downloading a script file. The script file had instructions to send commands to the victims Facebook profile. The result was the eventual spread of a malicious message, inviting more users to install the fake extension.
So what’s in such a scheme for the malware makers? Profit, in the form of selling Facebook likes to businesses looking for (ironically) a reputation boost and may be willing to pay the $27 charged for 1,000 likes.
According to reports, Google personnel removed the malicious extension after Kaspersky informed them of the hustle – titled Trojan.JS.Agent.bxowhich the Kaspersky experts had discovered on March 6 in a previous similar attack.
According to Ars Technica, a Google response was, “When we detect items containing malware or learn of them through reports, we remove them from the Chrome Web Store and from active Chrome instances. We’ve already removed several of these extensions, and we are improving our automated systems to help detect them even faster.”
Beyond the Store, one security plus for Google was the launch, earlier this year, of Bouncer, which scans the Android Market for malicious apps. The scan happens when developers first upload an app to the Market and then periodically after that.
The Bouncer safeguard does not, however, seem to console observers over thieves who find ways to outsmart Facebook and Google.
Those behind the cash-for-likes scheme “are uploading new extensions regularly, in a cat and mouse game,” said Kasperskys Assolini.
Kaspersky Lab noticed a “huge wave” of attacks in Brazil. Without naming the miscreants, Assolini’s column warning users to think twice before installing Chrome extensions simply referred to Brazils bad guys turning their attention to Chrome and Facebook, which are now Brazil’s two key go-to places on the Internet. Recent statistics show that Google Chrome has become the most popular browser in Brazil with more than 45 percent of market share. Facebook is the most popular social network in Brazil, with 42 million users, displacing Orkut.
More information: http://www.securel … e_extensions
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Article source: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-shoplifters-chrome-facebook.html
Tags: Brazil, Chrome Store, Chrome Web Store, Kaspersky Lab
