Browser Security News

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..

Microsoft Corp. confirmed today that it is investigating reports that a security update for Internet Explorer issued last week has crippled some users’ ability to get on the Web with the browser. Users started posting messages to multiple Microsoft support newsgroups almost immediately after Microsoft released the MS07-069 security bulletin on Dec. 11, saying that […]

The rhetoric coming from Microsoft and Mozilla has heated up in recent days on who is doing a better job on web browser security. I’d prefer to frame the debate in terms of who is doing worse than the other because both companies have had lots of security issues with their respective browsers. […]

Microsoft is patting itself on the back for having had fewer vulnerabilities in IE than have been found in Firefox. Microsoft has issued a report on Internet Explorer in which it pats itself on the back for having fewer vulnerabilities in its browser than are in the No. 1 competitor, Mozilla’s Firefox—a stance that the […]

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 […]

Most people lock their doors and windows, use a paper shredder to protect themselves from identity theft, and install antivirus software on their computers. Yet they routinely surf the Internet without giving a second thought to whether their browser is secure and their personal information safe. Unfortunately, it’s easy for someone with nefarious intentions to […]

It’s well known that search engine operators, among others, record queries together with IP addresses. TrackMeNot is a boon for users who find that overly intrusive. The add-on blows a thick layer of fog by sending randomly selected queries in the background to all possible search engines. Queries actually sent by the user cannot be […]

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 […]

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