Browser Security News

For quite some time, developers have been asking us how to run Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 side by side, and sadly, it’s not possible to it accurately. There is a work around that a few people have found, but it doesn’t give you a true IE6 vs IE7 comparison. It’s not […]

Even with the better security of Firefox compared with Internet Explorer, McAfee Site Advisor is a good way to sort the good from the bad online.
Once installed it appears as small area of text in the bottom right hand corner of the browser window. This changes colour depending on the website. Green signifies a website […]

An in-the-wild phish found on MySpace exposes unwary users to a flaw in Mozilla’s Password Manager that allows a cross site scripting exploit to steal login information.
The report by Robert Chapin called the newly discovered problem a reverse cross-site request in describing the problem. He noted that while the attack targets Internet Explorer, the behavior […]

Quite a few people know about the about:config page of Firefox, but there are more options than that under the hood of everyone’s favourite browser.
To peruse the contents of the cache, you can enter about:cache into the address bar, hit and look through. This has the advantages of being able to look at content stored […]

Adware maker Zango doesn’t comply with the terms of a November settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), security researchers claim. Zango early November agreed to pay a $3m fine for its "unfair and deceptive" methods of distributing its adware.
Under the proposed terms of the agreement, the adware maker has to stop serving advertisements to […]

The popular "Second Life" virtual world and game shut down for a brief time Sunday so administrators could clean up a worm attack dubbed "gray goo."
"An attack of self-replicators is causing heavy load on the database, which is in turn slowing down in-world activity," the official Linden Lab blog read at 2:44 p.m. (PST) Sunday. […]

As a programmer we strive to make our everyday lives easier. The very engine behind all innovation is lazyness, after all, if it weren’t for us being lazy, why would we use - and by that, have a need - for things like automobiles, computers and so forth?
I often meet people who aren’t aware of […]

For online attackers, browsers are the new black. Increasingly, attacks are targeting Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, using security holes to compromise victims’ PCs.
Fraudsters are regularly using previously unknown flaws, dubbed "zero-day" flaws, to attack Web surfers’ computers through Internet Explorer. In September, Microsoft released an emergency update to patch what was a previously […]

At work, we frequently get the request from clients to keep internet machines locked onto their website. There are a number of different pieces of software that can do this - and we do use them. Sometimes though, we just need a quick and dirty way to do this. I have discovered a way to […]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Mozilla Firefox 2 are the latest Web browser contenders for your attention (apologies to fans of Opera and other Web browsers, but these are the two that garner the most attention). Many of us have tried both and made a decision about which is the browser of choice.
If you […]