Google Chrome Security Risks Already Announced

Barely a day after Google's new browser was released, Chrome is showing some scratches: researchers have pointed out known security vulnerabilities that can put users at risk of malicious exploits.The Chrome security flaws identified this afternoon include known WebKit (the open source engine the browser is constructed around) vulnerabilities that, combined with a Java bug, can result in downloads of executable malicious files.

Other security researchers note there are ways to crash Chrome via malicious links, possibly without user input.

Early days for Chrome yet, and very early for the risk assessments and vulnerability audits to be anywhere near complete: we'll all be hearing plenty more about these -- and, one hopes, patches and fixes for them -- in the next few days.

For now it's worth reminding yourself and your employees that Chrome is still in beta, a work in progress that, for all of its promise, and especially all of its buzz, should be used carefully (if at all) in the small and midsize business workplace.

Your call of course, but it's a call you should make, one way or another, before those tech-happy members of your non-IT staff get too many copies of Chrome, with its now-known vulnerabilities, running on too many of your company's systems.

More From bMighty: Roundup: Google Chrome