Google's bringing a snitch onboard to help its Chrome Web browser detect malware attacks. It's not a human version; it's a software one called DOM Snitch that will be used first by developers, testers and security researchers to scan Web apps for vulnerabilities.
Google says it does take its security seriously, and calls Snitch "our passive in-the-browser reconnaissance tool."
Snitch is just in test mode now, but Google security test engineer Radoslav Vasilev says among Snitch's benefits: software developers can see if there are any modifications being made by bad guys inside the Chrome browser "without the need to step through JavaScript code with a debugger or pause the execution of their application."
The program is "experimental" for now, Vasilev said on Google's blog. "We do not guarantee that it will work flawlessly for all web applications."
Still, it's nice to know there may be a Snitch in the house — at least in this case.
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