14 Jun 08 Google Chrome Comic is Viral Marketing at its Best!

Although you might get a laugh from the bastardized versions of Google Chrome Comic, the comic itself is a viral marketing feat at its best.

Why?

Well, take a look at this marketing strategy where a company sends out fake employee badges and fake company organization chart just to get the bloggers’ attention.  (I actually had chance to talk to one of the founders of the company at the Web2.0 show)

In a similar fashion, Google sends out their Chrome Comic Book to all types of bloggers, developers, and press people before you can even download the browser itself.

What happened after that is you know what.    (Yes, very badly bastardized versions of the comic indeed but the fire spread wildly through the blogsphere causing people like me to make a blog about the Chrome)

I think Google Chrome will keep going strong as long as the Chrome developers (Chromers) respond to wanted features and bugs quickly. Tags:bugs, Chrome Rumors, comic book, company organization chart, developers, employee badges, fashion, founders, google, laugh, marketing strategy, viral marketing, web2 0

06 Jun 08 More Chrome Security Flaws

Since Google Chrome is still officially, “beta”, there will be a lot of security flaws and bugs that need to be fixed.

I heard about a security flaw where users are not promoted before downloading last week and Google has fixed it but here’s another one found by a company:

Vietnamese security company Bach Khoa Internet Security (BKIS) has found a flaw in Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 and posted details on its Web site. The company says the problem is a critical buffer-overflow vulnerability that could allow a hacker to perform a remote attack and take complete control of the affected system.

Here’s the proof of concept code:

An issue exists in how chrome behaves with undefined-handlers in chrome.dll version 0.2.149.27. A crash can result without user interaction. When a user is made to visit a malicious link, which has an undefined handler followed by a ’special’ character, the chrome crashes with a Google Chrome message window “Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?”. It crashes on “int 3″ at 0×01002FF3 as an exception/trap, followed by “POP EBP” instruction when pointed out by the EIP register at 0×01002FF4.

I am sure Google will get this little bug fixed real soon but in the meanwhile, you can send any bugs you find to: tips [at] chrome-hacks.net.

via informationweek Tags:bach khoa, bkis, buffer overflow vulnerability, bugs, Chrome Security Flaws/Bugs, complete control, crash, crashes, ebp, google, hacker, hacks, internet security, little bug, message window, proof of concept, security company, security flaw, security flaws