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Amber Bouman

Billions of Chrome users at risk from 13 security flaws including four high-severity ones — update your browser right now

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Google’s Tuesday update for Chrome includes 13 security fixes, including patches for four high severity bugs. Given that the world's most popular browser has 3.4 billion users, these bugs could potentially affect billions of people if left unpatched.

Though details about the flaws are, as usual, relatively scarce as Google waits for users to update their browsers, we do know that one of the flaws was discovered within Chrome's Digital Credentials feature. This is a tool that allows users to share verified information from a digital wallet with websites in order to prove their identity across devices.

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