Browser Security News

Another year, another round of sneaky online attacks. IBM security experts anticipate 2007 will see more sophisticated profit-motivated cyber attacks, including more focus on Web browsers as well as advances in image-based spam. Their findings – part of IBM’s 2006 security statistics report – also noted that, on average, each day of 2006 brought 20 […]

This update addresses an issue experienced by some users where CPU usage is high when they are navigating a page that contains multiple frames or when multiple frames are navigated simultaneously. This occurs when the phishing filter evaluates the page for each navigation, resulting in multiple simultaneous evaluations for the same page. If you have […]

It’s long past time to bother telling anyone how much better than IE Firefox is. Faster, smaller, more responsive, with tabbed browsing and useful extensions galore. It’s also lot more secure than IE, partly because it’s open source, and particularly because it’s not integrated with the underlying OS. Firefox’s security bugs involve the browser only, […]

CIS is reporting today that efforts by MySpace to fix a flaw that tricks users into entering their login details in to a bogus web page have failed. CIS said that a Reverse Cross Site Request can still be injected into a MySpace.com email message. News of the flaw first broke on 23 November, when […]

Browser usage numbers for 2006 are beginning to appear on the Web, and for the first time in many moons the market share of Microsoft’s dominant offering, Internet Explorer, has dipped below 80 percent. While Explorer’s star was sinking, its chief competitor’s, Mozilla Firefox, was ascending. Its market share climbed from 9.50 percent in January […]

You already know you can customize Firefox to the hilt, and the browser saves all the settings, bookmarks and extensions you’ve worked so hard to perfect. But your spouse’s bookmarks, passwords and preferences differ from yours, and you both use the family computer logged in as the same user. If you share a computer with […]

OperaTor is a software bundle that can be easily installed on a portable memory (pendrive, usb stick, hard drive) to allow anonymous surfing while at an internet cafe, library etc. It combines the power of the Opera Browser, The Onion Router and Privoxy. With OperaTor no data will be stored at the computer you plugged […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 offers significant security improvements over its deservedly criticized predecessor. But the new IE still does not do enough to protect users. Microsoft has, in IE 7, locked down some of the problem areas in IE 6. The browser will permit a Web site to nag you only once about installing an […]

The Gromozon Rootkit is a user mode rootkit that installs a variant of LinkOptimizer adware and occasionally the rogue antispyware program called Brave Sentry, a desktop hijacker. It is named after the site which distributes the threat. This threat pulls out all the tricks including random file naming, file morphing, file encryption (EFS), hiding in […]

Malicious software that was sent out in millions of spam messages over the weekend has now infected about 300,000 computers, making it the worst malware outbreak since 2005, Symantec said Monday.