<div dir="ltr">Most people who know me know I'm pretty security minded, but I just got a big surprise in the form of the "PageRank Status" Chrome Extension. The TL;DR is that they've started injecting ads from some company called <a href="http://superfish.com">superfish.com</a> onto sites. A longer version is here:<div>
<br></div><div><a href="https://systemoverlord.com/blog/2013/01/07/pagerank-status-chrome-extension-injects-ads">https://systemoverlord.com/blog/2013/01/07/pagerank-status-chrome-extension-injects-ads</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>Mostly, I wanted to remind everyone to keep an eye on everything -- just because it was clean in version 1.0 doesn't mean it's clean now, and browser extensions can be just as dangerous as full malware.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>David Tomaschik<br>OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B<br><a href="http://systemoverlord.com" target="_blank">http://systemoverlord.com</a><br><a href="mailto:david@systemoverlord.com" target="_blank">david@systemoverlord.com</a>
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