Chromebook users, here’s why government wants you to apply the latest security update

Chromebooks are affordable and functional laptops that are most suitable for day-to-day usage like browsing, word processing, watching shows, movies, etc. These laptops are powered by Google’s ChromeOS operating system and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) has issued a warning for select ChromeOS operating system.

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) recently issued a warning for Google ChromeOS users. The government body has classified the risk as ‘‘high severity’ and noted multiple vulnerabilities in Google ChromeOS which could make it an easy target for hackers.

Who all are affected
Chromebook users running versions prior to 108.0.5359.71 are currently affected.