Browser Security News

Security company Finjan has unveiled a browser plug-in which it claims can alert users to potentially malicious content hiding behind links to search results, ads and other selected web pages. The firm’s SecureBrowsing tool accesses each web link in its current form and scans the relevant pages in real time using Finjan’s behavior-based analysis technology. […]

Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 3 alpha 2 this morning. The new release follows Mozilla’s semi-regular 6 week test release pattern and in no way represents a finished product, but I decided to download the new alpha and see how things were coming along. There are still major issues. I haven’t had any stability […]

Microsoft reported Feb. 8 that it will ship a dozen security bulletins, including five updates meant to fix critical Windows flaws, as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday updating process on Feb. 13. The software giant, based in Redmond, Wash., indicated that it will deliver its largest array of security updates in a single month […]

A security company has reported two new flaws in the Mozilla Firefox browser that may leave locally saved files vulnerable to outside attacks. Both flaws were announced by SecuriTeam, a division of Beyond Security, this week. The first flaw lies in Firefox’s pop-up blocker feature, according to a SecuriTeam statement on Monday. The browser typically […]

Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities are increasingly so commonplace, the risk is lost with the message. On Feb. 2, Microsoft issued another security alert, this one for Excel, that largely went unnoticed In its security bulletin, Microsoft warned that "other Office applications are potentially vulnerable" to the zero-day flaw. Zero-day refers to a flaw for which there […]

Holey Rusted Metal, Batman! Netscape 9 is in the works, continuing the relaunch of the Netscape brand which began by turning the Netscape website into a user-driven atomic pile of steaming interweb [Lovin’ the Robin quotes today, eh? -Ed]

SecureIX launched last year with almost no hype surrounding it. Even we only came to know of it recently. Why something so seemingly important went unnoticed, is unknown. What SecureIX offers is a whole package of ’secure services’. An IMAP/POP SSL-enabled e-mail account with PGP encryption and 1 GB storage, Usenet newsgroup access, and an […]

Yes, it’s true. There are some people that prefer the look of Internet Explorer to the way Firefox looks (though I’ve never met one). So, I’ve created this simple How To guide that shows you just what needs to be done to get Firefox looking just like IE. The goal of this project is mainly […]

Another year, another round of sneaky online attacks. IBM security experts anticipate 2007 will see more sophisticated profit-motivated cyber attacks, including more focus on Web browsers as well as advances in image-based spam. Their findings – part of IBM’s 2006 security statistics report – also noted that, on average, each day of 2006 brought 20 […]

This update addresses an issue experienced by some users where CPU usage is high when they are navigating a page that contains multiple frames or when multiple frames are navigated simultaneously. This occurs when the phishing filter evaluates the page for each navigation, resulting in multiple simultaneous evaluations for the same page. If you have […]