Browser Security News

Microsoft released its long-awaited Internet Explorer 7.0 browser on Oct. 19. The free download allows Windows users to replace IE 6.0, which hasn’t had a serious feature update since it first came out in 2002. IE 6 has been a serious p.r. problem for the Redmond software company, producing a string of warnings — seemingly […]

Brian Krebs has gone beyond the normal finger pointing at Microsoft and actually gather the statistics to prove how insecure Internet Explorer 6 was in 2006. For 284 days of 2006 IE6 had substantial, unpatched flaws that were being exploited and probed. It sounds like there might be just a little bit […]

In 2007, Internet Explorer 6 will almost certainly lose its crown as the most popular Web browser after holding the title for many, many years. Since IE6 was launched in 2001, its leadership has not seriously been challenged. The release of Firefox two years ago certainly gave Microsoft a much needed kick in the pants […]

Like most Web designers, I need to test my Web designs on as many versions of as many browsers as I can, so that they display correctly for all my customers. Internet Explorer makes that very difficult because IE is built into the Windows OS - and so even if you use a hack, it […]

Many of you have asked how to run IE6 and IE7 in a side by side environment. As Chris Wilson blogged about early this year, it’s unfortunately not so easy to do. There are workarounds, but they are unsupported and don’t necessarily work the same way as IE6 or IE7 would work when installed properly. […]

For quite some time, developers have been asking us how to run Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 side by side, and sadly, it’s not possible to it accurately. There is a work around that a few people have found, but it doesn’t give you a true IE6 vs IE7 comparison. It’s not […]

Users of Internet Explorer and Firefox will enjoy increased computing security for the anti-keylogger tool protects all logins, not just one or two sites, and does so by encrypting the user’s keystrokes at the kernel driver level, before keyloggers can record them.
KeyScrambler Professional, available at $24.99, encrypts not only logins but everything a user types […]

A zero-day exploit was discovered by Sunbelt Software in the Microsoft Windows implementation of Vector Markup Language (VML). According to Microsoft, VML is defined as:
Vector Markup Language (VML) is an XML-based exchange, editing, and delivery format for high-quality vector graphics on the Web that meets the needs of both productivity users and graphic design professionals. […]

Hackers are taking advantage of a newly discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer to install spyware on PCs that visit a number of Russian porn sites. The malware, first reported Monday by researchers at Sunbelt Software Inc., takes advantage of an unpatched flaw in the way IE processes Vector Markup Language (VML) code. VML is a […]

Microsoft’s implementation of the Vector Markup Language rendering engine has a vulnerability that could lead to a buffer overflow and execution of arbitrary code.
Sunbelt Software’s Eric Sites, VP for research and development, posted about an in-the-wild exploit affecting Internet Explorer. The flaw allows for exploitation of a fully-patched system, triggered by visiting in their example […]