Browser Security News

Do you consider yourself to be a privacy aware Internet user? Are you concerned about your security online? You’ve installed antivirus and spyware software, which you also keep updated. You regularly update your operating system for any security patches. You have a firewall on your home computer and have locked down your home wireless network […]

Cookies have long been a part of the online experience because they provide that much needed connection between the web site and the user that disappears when the browser is closed. Without the existence of cookies, the Internet would be a lot less user friendly. This is because the cookie holds information that lets the […]

There’s little question that one the biggest drains on productivity is worry. Many of us tend to worry about things that are out of our control. Other times, we worry about things based on tidbits of information we hear. One item that I think too many people worry about is browser cookies. Like many items, […]

HttpOnly cookies are a mechanism Microsoft developed for IE6 SP1 to add some security to cookies. The web developer would set a cookie (for instance the session cookie) to be HttpOnly (both ASP and PHP support setting HttpOnly cookies) and the browser would only ever use that cookie when sending HTTP requests, not when client […]

Firefox suffers from a flaw that allows attackers to manipulate the authentication cookies of virtually any website, a vulnerability Bugzilla has deemed severe. It’s the second major security lapse for the open-source browser in as many days.

GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for GNU is Not Unix, first set out in 1984 to develop a Unix-like operating system as Free Software.
It is now gearing up to provide a "free" version of Mozilla’s (not-so-free) Firefox browser. The GNU version is called IceWeasel and is part of the GNUzilla effort from […]

Using the Firefox ‘Clear Private Data tool’, I set my privacy settings on my Firefox to clear the following when closing:
* browsing history
* saved form information
* download history
* cache
* authenticated sessions
Trouble is, when I needed […]

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 […]

What is active content?
To increase functionality or add design embellishments, web sites often rely on scripts that execute programs within the web browser. This active content can be used to create “splash pages” or options like drop-down menus. Unfortunately, these scripts are often a way for attackers to download or execute malicious code on […]