Google is taking action to
improve the security of the Chrome Web Store, adding new security and fix
down on unsecured practices.
The Chrome Web Store, that
allows users to add extensions to their Chrome browser, has a somewhat
irregular reputation for security, and has frequently been found to hosting
malevolent extension that silently observe on users and loot their personal
data.
Regarding Chrome extensions, Google
announced many changes, some of which are effectively immediately and some of
which taking effect in coming months.
Google explained the reasoning
behind this change in its blog post:
“While host permissions have
enabled thousands of powerful and creative extension use cases, they have also
led to a broad range of misuse- both malicious and unintentional- because they
allow extension to automatically read and change data on websites. Our aim is
to improve user transparency and control over when extensions are able to
access site data. In subsequent milestones, we’ll continue to optimize the user
experience toward this goal while improving usability.”
The tech tycoon is aiming to
stamp this out, and introducing new secure privacy and security features such
as a tougher permission's system. In new system extension will not work
automatically, the system allow users to specify if they want to run extension
on specific sites, all sites or to only run when the extension is clicked by
the users. This system reduces the chance an extension could gather data of the
users.
The new secure system is the
part of Google Chrome Version 70, which is due to general release this month. The
new changes will get user trust on Chrome Extensions.
There are many malicious and
unsecured extensions on chrome that contain obfuscated code. Google will block
all the extensions that have obfuscated code because obfuscation is manly used
to steal the user data without their permission. These extensions will not be
allowed to be submitted to the web store, and existing extensions that use it
has 3 months to replace it before they removed. The removal malicious
extensions from chrome store will likely bring performance benefits and improve users security.
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