Browser Security News

Spam makes up close to 100 percent of all e-mail traffic on the Internet, according to Microsoft. In a new security report, Microsoft said that 97 percent of e-mails sent were destined for the junk folder, though most never made it to their destinations thanks to server-side filtering.

Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.21, fixing two critical security vulnerabilities in the open source email client. The update fixes some of the same vulnerabilities that were also recently patched in the Firefox 3.0.7 security update.

Spam is an annoying but constant reality for e-mail users, and February did little to change that fact. According to the latest malware report from MessageLabs Intelligence, the beginning of the month saw a spike in spam—it reached as much as 79.5 percent of e-mail traffic—before settling down to an average of 73.3 percent for [...]

Charles H. Bronson, Commissioner of Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services, on January 27, 2009, issued an alert about a phishing campaign using the brand name of AOL (America Online), a popular Internet service provider, to capture the personal details of consumers, as reported by SunSentinel on January 27, 2009.

In an era when applications are moving into the web browser, the maker of the world’s most popular open-source e-mail client wants you to stay on the desktop. Later this month, Mozilla will release Thunderbird 2, the latest version of its cross-platform e-mail application. The current version, 1.5, has almost 50 million users worldwide and [...]

By the end of this week, the Thunderbird 2.0 Release Candidate will be launched. Thunderbird is Mozilla’s open source desktop email client, similar to Microsoft Outlook in features. However with the 2.0 release, Thunderbird takes on more Web functionality from the Firefox browser (more on that below). Thunderbird is cross-platform and it works on Mac, [...]