Browser Security News

Microsoft has revised its controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program in an attempt to improve accuracy, reduce false positives and fight tampering.
Microsoft took a considerable amount of heat over the WGA program earlier this year. Customers were angry to discover the program was installed on their system as a mandatory update, as though it were [...]

This may sound like a counter-intuitive argument, since Microsoft is the current leader in the browser market (at least in terms of users). That said, in my view, the company is the underdog in this current browser war — just like it was once upon a time.
In the first browser war back in the early [...]

Suppose there was a software category so ubiquitous that virtually everyone used it and anyone could get the software for free. Suppose, also, that the software was highly standards-based, so much so that it did not require any patented or proprietary technologies to work. That software would be a perfect candidate for open source, right?
That [...]

Has the browser become a scapegoat for Web-based bugs?
Web-based vulnerabilities and attacks are on the rise. And sure, there are plenty of browser bugs (think Metasploit’s Month of Browser Bugs, among other things). But there’s a subtle distinction often lost amid the panic, publicity and patching: many browser-related vulnerabilities aren’t actually inherent in the browser. [...]

Now that Internet Explorer 7 has been released in final format, I wanted to look at how search is being handled within the browser. There’s been lots of discussion and worries about this in the past. Speculation time is over; reality is here. In this article, how the IE7 search box works, how you can [...]

Internet users are under attack and what’s more, there’s no bulletproof defense against hackers on the horizon. Despite hype to the contrary from marketing departments at Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla, Web browsers themselves — not just the operating systems that run them — are to blame for many security flaws.
Vulnerabilities are so embedded in any [...]

We’ve been talking about security a lot lately, and for good reason. Every one of us has been forced into a position where we have to think about it, and if we don’t, then we’ll pay the price for it. Many of us have become so lazy that we sometimes skip installing system updates or [...]

[tag]Mozilla Corp[/tag]. has hired a former Microsoft security strategist to help secure its open-source software, particularly its Firefox browser.
[tag]Window Snyder[/tag], whose hiring was announced last week, takes the title of "Chief Security Something" — that’s a working title, and not all that unusual for a company headed by someone who once held the title of [...]

The syndication format’s vulnerabilities must be addressed before [tag]IE 7[/tag] and [tag]Vista[/tag] come out. As we here at eWEEK Labs evaluate the next generation of Web browsers, operating systems, collaboration tools and other interactive applications, one feature keeps popping up again and again—namely, integration with [tag]RSS[/tag] feeds.
RSS integration has already pretty much become a must-have [...]

Ever since Netscape took on Mosaic in 1994, companies have been duking it out for domination in the browser marketplace. We relive the biggest and best of the great browser battles. In the beginning was WorldWideWeb. Developed by Tim Berners-Lee, the world’s first Web browser was developed on and written specifically for the NeXT platform [...]