Browser Security News

CIS is reporting today that efforts by MySpace to fix a flaw that tricks users into entering their login details in to a bogus web page have failed. CIS said that a Reverse Cross Site Request can still be injected into a MySpace.com email message. News of the flaw first broke on 23 November, when […]

Browser usage numbers for 2006 are beginning to appear on the Web, and for the first time in many moons the market share of Microsoft’s dominant offering, Internet Explorer, has dipped below 80 percent. While Explorer’s star was sinking, its chief competitor’s, Mozilla Firefox, was ascending. Its market share climbed from 9.50 percent in January […]

You already know you can customize Firefox to the hilt, and the browser saves all the settings, bookmarks and extensions you’ve worked so hard to perfect. But your spouse’s bookmarks, passwords and preferences differ from yours, and you both use the family computer logged in as the same user. If you share a computer with […]

OperaTor is a software bundle that can be easily installed on a portable memory (pendrive, usb stick, hard drive) to allow anonymous surfing while at an internet cafe, library etc. It combines the power of the Opera Browser, The Onion Router and Privoxy. With OperaTor no data will be stored at the computer you plugged […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 offers significant security improvements over its deservedly criticized predecessor. But the new IE still does not do enough to protect users. Microsoft has, in IE 7, locked down some of the problem areas in IE 6. The browser will permit a Web site to nag you only once about installing an […]

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.

The success of the open-source Firefox browser, which first appeared in 2002 under the guise of Phoenix, is something of an Internet phenomenon. We’re very fond of it in the TR offices; so fond in fact that Internet Explorer is relegated to the not so taxing task of downloading Firefox and thereafter is ignored. And […]

This is because Application Compatibility Logging is not enabled on your machine. This is completely normal because, by default, IE7 does not enable Application Compatibility Logging. When I enabled Application Compatibility Logging the Internet Explorer folder in Event Viewer immediately started filling with data - please do not try to repair IE7 because of […]

Entrust, a provider of secure sockets layer certificates, is offering extended validation SSL certificates that are detectable by Windows XP to help Internet users battle phishing attacks. When consumers use an EV SSL-aware browser, valid sites will feature a green address bar, and information about the company operating the site and the certification authority that […]