Browser Security News

Suppose there was a software category so ubiquitous that virtually everyone used it and anyone could get the software for free. Suppose, also, that the software was highly standards-based, so much so that it did not require any patented or proprietary technologies to work. That software would be a perfect candidate for open source, right?
That […]

Firefox is a major piece of software with millions of users, or seen another way, it’s a collection of very small things that need fixing.
“When it comes to development, small is a really nice way to do things,” said Mozilla’s technology strategist Mike Shaver, who spoke Friday at the fifth annual Free Software and Open […]

Sure, you can use the plain vanilla Firefox, but even though Firefox is already a gazillion times easier to use than IE, not to mention more reliable, adding selected extensions increases its power and adds functionality that you didn’t even realize you wanted. In my opinion, Firefox extensions are awesome.
As I’ve mentioned countless times before, […]

Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 7.0 browser, which was released to the public last week, includes several security improvements but still has weaknesses inherited from IE 6. I’ll show you an easy way to "harden" IE 7 so you’re protected against hacker threats that haven’t even been invented yet.

Phishing could soon be a thing of the past and the credit may have to go to Microsoft. That’s according to a leading web security expert who says functionality built into Internet Explore 7 could shutter fraudulent websites within 18 months.
Tim Callan, a director at VeriSign, said anti-phishing guards in IE 7 - which will […]

Has the browser become a scapegoat for Web-based bugs?
Web-based vulnerabilities and attacks are on the rise. And sure, there are plenty of browser bugs (think Metasploit’s Month of Browser Bugs, among other things). But there’s a subtle distinction often lost amid the panic, publicity and patching: many browser-related vulnerabilities aren’t actually inherent in the browser. […]

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 […]

PERSPECTIVE With Microsoft not having launched a new Web browser since 2001, nor a new service pack since August 2004, Internet Explorer arguably had the longest road to travel to be ready for Windows Vista. Firefox, on the other hand, has had much more frequent point releases, with version 1.5 made available in November 2005.
But […]

FireFox 2.0 is out to play. IE7 is out to play. Who are we going to play with?
By now, you all know the fact that in the browser war the two main candidates have updated their weapons in a short time and that we can now evaluate their work. Both Mozilla Foundation and Microsoft have […]

…Thirteen of the FTSE 100 homepages that we tested were broken in IE7 - although not significantly so. Problems ranged from warped page layouts (Alliance and Leicester) to small presentation glitches (Hanson).
It’s worth pointing out however that the general lack of adherence to web standards amongst the FTSE 100 companies may have insulated them somewhat […]