Chrome Security Secret Sauce
summary
Chrome details concrete defenses: fuzzing with ClusterFuzz on 2,000+ cores to find memory bugs, sandboxing renderer and plugins (native Flash and built‑in PDF sandboxed), automated updates that push patches in under 24 hours, and a vulnerability program now paying $5,000 typical bounties and $60,000 Podium rewards. Safe Browsing classifies malicious pages for over a billion users and exposes an API, and SSL protections include certificate pinning and HSTS whitelists to block real man‑in‑the‑middle incidents.
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chapters (30)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:24Disclaimers
- 1:14Chrome's Core Principles
- 2:18Chrome Security Team
- 3:28Browser Security?
- 6:09Top Threats on the Web
- 6:33Browser Exploits Malicious code that aims to achieve remote code execution on victim's computer by exploiting a security bug in the browser.
- 7:36Counterthreat Step 1: Find and fix security bugs. Update users.
- 8:01Find Bugs via Fuzzing
- 13:57Pay for Bugs
- 16:56Pay for Exploits
- 19:23Fix Bugs, Update Users. Fast.
- 21:35Defense in Depth
- 22:14Process Sandboxing
- 23:26Plugin Sandboxing
- 24:12Plugin Blocking
- 25:37Phishing & Malware Sites Get a user to visit or load a malicious website that either (a) phishes their personal data or (b) delivers some malicious payload leg malware .
- 27:33Block Badness
- 29:37Find Badness
- 30:00Notify of Badness
- 31:30Attacks to SSL Violate the security and privacy guarantees of SSL to steal user information
- 32:33Gimme some SSL!
- 32:56SSL Protocol Handshake
- 34:33Man-in-the-Middle Attack
- 35:42Certificate Pinning Chrome comes preloaded with the certificates it expects to see for Google-owned websites, and if it does not see one of those when it visits a Google owned website, it shows an error page to the user and will not let the user continue.
- 36:44Certificate Pinning FTW!
- 37:53HTTP Strict Transport Security
- 39:00HSTS Whitelisted Services
- 39:40Closing Thoughts Browser security matters. It should be a factor in choosing the software you use.
- 40:12Questions? Complaints?
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