Browser Security News

A proxy server, by definition, is a network service that allows clients to make indirect network connections to other network services like the Internet, giving users the freedom of browsing the Web. The use of certain Firewall/Web filtering applications by some corporations, organizations, universities or countries shows that each is willing to spend a lot […]

A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users’ bank data by intercepting account information before it is encrypted and sending it to a central attacker database. The Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Silentbanker by security software company Symantec, can intercept online banking transactions that normally are well guarded by two-factor authentication procedures.

Web sites that naively call for user input, then fail to put strict checks on what that input may be, are susceptible to SQL injection attacks. That vulnerability appears to be the cause of up to 70,000 Web pages getting hacked by malicious code between Dec. 28 and Jan. 5..

Hackers infecting PCs with malware that is only triggered when they access their bank accounts, is the latest threat to online banking, according to security software supplier F-Secure. Hackers are acting as a ‘man in the browser’ by intercepting HTML code in the web browser. As bank security measures are curbing more traditional threats such […]

There is good news for all those end users of the Firefox web browsing software application who had been eagerly waiting for news on the development of Mozilla Firefox version 3.0. The Alpha release of Mozilla Firefox version 3.0 has been released and is available for download on the World Wide Web. Of course, the […]

With the help of the Dr.Web Anti-virus link checker for Opera you can check for viruses and various malicious programs on any Internet page before you visit, or any file on the Internet before you download by the latest version of the Dr.Web Anti-virus with the hottest add-ons to the virus database!

Hackers are trying to trick prospective marks into loading malware that poses as "beta" version of Internet Explorer 7. Widely circulated emails, which pose as messages from admin@microsoft.com and feature subject lines such as "Internet Explorer 7 Downloads", display an image which invites gullible users to download beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7. Users who […]

Security company Finjan has unveiled a browser plug-in which it claims can alert users to potentially malicious content hiding behind links to search results, ads and other selected web pages. The firm’s SecureBrowsing tool accesses each web link in its current form and scans the relevant pages in real time using Finjan’s behavior-based analysis technology. […]

The Gromozon Rootkit is a user mode rootkit that installs a variant of LinkOptimizer adware and occasionally the rogue antispyware program called Brave Sentry, a desktop hijacker. It is named after the site which distributes the threat. This threat pulls out all the tricks including random file naming, file morphing, file encryption (EFS), hiding in […]

Malicious software that was sent out in millions of spam messages over the weekend has now infected about 300,000 computers, making it the worst malware outbreak since 2005, Symantec said Monday.