Browser Security News

Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million. We are also hearing that this investment is part of a “much larger strategic deal” between the two companies.

Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE) is a browser that reportedly has 30% of the browser market in its home country of China, second only to IE and ahead of Firefox. It is a powerful tabbed, fully customizable and 100% free Internet browser built on top of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) platform. The milestone Maxthon 2.0 [...]

[tag]AOL[/tag] Thursday slipstreamed a security update to users of the Internet provider’s browser to fix a bug that Microsoft patched back in June.
According to an alert posted by Reston, Va. security company iDefense Inc., [tag]AOL’s browser[/tag] uses a flawed method to render compressed images in the .art format. An attacker can exploit the bug by [...]

A free browser that claims it can safeguard privacy has been hit with accusations that it is really a platform for advertising and – worse still – is insecure.
Released last week, Browzar is not an independent browser but an IE (Internet Explorer) shell download that its creators have promoted as a way for ordinary internet [...]

The new Browzar internet browser is promising users a way to surf the internet while disclosing only a limited amount of personal information.
In an attempt to protect the privacy of its users the application does not store cookies or a history of previously visited websites, nor does it maintain a cache or offer to auto-complete [...]

Heatseek is a pornography focused browser that quietly launched today. The point of this software is to make porn browsing more efficent and more secure. The browser is available on Windows machines only, and is built on top of Internet Explorer.
They’ve clearly thought this through. Every feature is aimed at either making porn consumption easier [...]

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and other browsers keep surprisingly accurate records of your online activities, and not just in their history windows. Clearing out the virtual breadcrumbs in your Internet cache and browser histories not only helps preserve your privacy, it also can improve your PC’s performance by letting you regain some disk space. Emptying [...]