Browser Security News

Websense Security Labs has received several reports of a new worm spreading to Yahoo! web mail accounts. Yahoo! mail incorrectly filters the "onload" attribute out of <img> tags in HTML emails. The "onload" script is executed upon receipt of the malicious email. The script utilizes the Yahoo! QuickBuilder tool to mine all the email addresses […]

For many of us, "default settings" are irritations that don’t last long after we install a piece of software or unpack a new computer (although we still recommend buying and building your own). Yet many users leave their default settings just as they found them, which means that in the browser wars, there’s worry that […]