Browser Security News

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer remains the most popular browser in the world. This despite report after report calling the program less secure than Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and other free competitors. Yet IE remains the preferred browser of nearly four out of five people surfing the Web.

Modern browsers are much better than their predecessors at keeping your Web activity private and your data safe. Still, you may not have your browser configured to provide optimum security. Take a few minutes to give Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 a safety check.

As promised, Microsoft on Tuesday started releasing a version of Internet Explorer 7 without the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation check.

IE7 Coming Through On WSUS, Blocker Toolkit Or Not Larry Seltzer here, pointing you to this recent Knowledge Base article with Microsoft’s announcement that Internet Explorer 7 will be distributed through WSUS (Windows Software Update Services) on Feb. 12, 2008, which is the next Patch Tuesday. It will appear as an "Update Rollup."

Microsoft has warned corporate administrators that it will push a new version of Internet Explorer 7 their way next month, and it has posted guidelines on how to ward off the automatic update if admins want to keep the older IE6 browser on their companies’ machines. The IE7 upgrade scheduled to roll out via WSUS […]

It was intended to be an innocent little blog post by a Microsoft program manager but it set off a firestorm of reaction from frustrated users, reports a story in PC World. The post (like so many made by Microsoft employees in their blogs) was intended to be a hip-hip-hooray for a Microsoft product. In […]

Microsoft is warning users to avoid suspicious websites and emails after attacks were reported on an unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer 7. The company would not provide exact figures, but said that a "limited number " of attacks had been reported. The attacks target a vulnerability in IE7’s handling of the uniform resource indicator (URI) […]

Security researchers are again arguing over who is responsible — Microsoft or third-party developers — for protocol-handling bugs after a researcher said late last week that Internet Explorer 7 can be used to trick users into launching malware.

Although Microsoft Corp. fixed four flaws in Internet Explorer (IE) yesterday, it did not address a protocol-handling problem that could trick users into downloading malware, a move that surprised at least one security researcher. The company, however, said it has reopened its investigation and may provide a patch in the future.

Microsoft has issued an updated Internet Explorer (IE) 7 release that no longer requires Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation in order to download.Internet Explorer 7 update: Now WGA-free Program Manager Steve Reynolds announced the news on October 4 on Microsoft’s IE Team blog: