Browser Security News

Google will suspend Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) support for its Gmail and Calendar services later this year, the company said today. The move will come at some point after March 1, when Google will start scaling back IE6 support for Google Docs and Google Sites.
Continue reading ‘Gmail to drop IE6 support this year’

While Microsoft is touting the fact Internet Explorer 8 is the single most widely used Web browser, the combined percentages of IE 6 and 7 users surpass it. The use of the older browsers means many users aren’t taking advantage of the latest browser security protections.
Continue reading ‘Older IE Versions Maintain Sizable Market Share Despite Security Concerns’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the audience at the 2009 Crunchies Awards in San Francisco that Web users have become more accepting of information sharing in the past several years – a change he said has guided Facebook’s privacy strategy.
Continue reading ‘Facebook CEO: Privacy Not the Social Norm’

Mozilla has fixed a flaw in Firefox’s upgrade mechanism that had prevented many users from migrating to the newer version 3.5.
Continue reading ‘Mozilla fixes upgrade flaw in Firefox’

We predicted it would happen, and it finally has: Internet Explorer 8 has surpassed IE6, easily the most hated version of Microsoft’s browser among the tech-savvy, after passing IE7 the month before that.
Continue reading ‘Chrome grabs market share from IE and Firefox, passes Safari’

Adobe Reader and Flash will surpass Microsoft Office applications as favorite targets of cybercriminals, a security vendor predicted Tuesday.
Continue reading ‘Adobe To Surpass Microsoft As Hacker Target’

Microsoft released fixes on Tuesday for critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, including one for which exploit code has been released.
Continue reading ‘Microsoft plugs zeroday IE hole’

Google’s closely watched foray into computer operating systems could speed the development of a new class of cheaper laptops and dramatically advance the netbook paradigm of Web-based computing.
Continue reading ‘Google Chrome could reshape PC experience’

The beleaguered EU edition of Windows 7 has taken another twist, with Microsoft agreeing to randomise the list of the most popular browsers during the operating system’s setup.
Continue reading ‘Microsoft introduces browser shuffle ballot in Windows 7′

One of the ways Microsoft plans to push Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 users to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 is convincing them the latest version is much more secure, which it is. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, last week posted a story on the IEBlog about how IE8 managed to block a malicious webpage he was linked to by one of his close friends on Facebook.
Continue reading ‘Microsoft aims at IE6 holdouts, highlights security’