Browser Security News

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.

You’re at an open wireless hotspot, but you don’t want to send your web browsing data over it in plain text. Or you want to visit a non-work-approved web page from the office computer without the IT team finding out. Using a simple SSH command, you can encrypt all your web browsing traffic and redirect […]

OperaTor is a software bundle that can be easily installed on a portable memory (pendrive, usb stick, hard drive) to allow anonymous surfing while at an internet cafe, library etc. It combines the power of the Opera Browser, The Onion Router and Privoxy. With OperaTor no data will be stored at the computer you plugged […]

A new tool aimed at circumventing Internet filters used by some governments was released today, offering hopes for freer access to information for activists, journalists and others.
Psiphon, developed at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies that allows […]

There are concerns that the latest and greatest Firefox, version 2, could compromise a user’s privacy because of the way that its anti-phishing system works.
To use the feature, you (apparently, I haven’t used it yet) have to send Google a record of every website you visit. A cookie is then used to record your behaviour […]

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 […]

A tweaked version of Firefox that makes Web browsing anonymous has been released by a group of privacy-minded coders.
Every few minutes, the Torpark browser causes a computer’s IP address to appear to change. IP addresses are numeric identifier given to computers on the Internet. The number can be used along with other data to potentially […]

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 […]

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 […]

AllPeers released a beta Thursday of what it called the most ambitious Firefox extension to date, a peer-to-peer application that would allow friends and family to share files and content between one another in a private setting.
Unlike the major P2P networks, AllPeers allows the sharing of files securely and privately.
The application has been released on […]