Browser Security News

When is your shiny new Windows Vista protected against evil Web threats? Not as often as we were all led to believe in those Microsoft Windows Vista ads. I ran across this post from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer blog site shortly after the software giant patched the animated cursor flaw in Windows Vista with the release […]

Mozilla Corporation wants to get the security community involved in ironing out possible bugs with the next version of Firefox at an earlier stage. Instead of pointing out security bugs once Firefox 3.0 gets released, Mozilla wants security vendors involved while the software in still a work in progress. Window Snyder, the "chief security something" […]

Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million. We are also hearing that this investment is part of a “much larger strategic deal” between the two companies.

In an era when applications are moving into the web browser, the maker of the world’s most popular open-source e-mail client wants you to stay on the desktop. Later this month, Mozilla will release Thunderbird 2, the latest version of its cross-platform e-mail application. The current version, 1.5, has almost 50 million users worldwide and […]

The Mozilla Foundation is looking at disabling support for the Windows animated cursor format as a workaround for the ANI vulnerability that has left Windows systems open to exploit and complete takeover for the past week. Firefox users who use automatic update should get an update notification for the workaround. Users who have turned off […]

By the end of this week, the Thunderbird 2.0 Release Candidate will be launched. Thunderbird is Mozilla’s open source desktop email client, similar to Microsoft Outlook in features. However with the 2.0 release, Thunderbird takes on more Web functionality from the Firefox browser (more on that below). Thunderbird is cross-platform and it works on Mac, […]

Mozilla is looking at delivering its own remedy for a Windows flaw that could let attackers commandeer a PC running the Microsoft operating system software. Microsoft broke with its monthly patch cycle Tuesday to fix the bug, which cybercrooks had been using since last week to attack Windows PCs. The flaw relates to the way […]

Determina is previewing a version of the ANI exploit that will hijack Mozilla Firefox 2 as well as Internet Explorer 7 running on Vista (with default DEP settings mostly turned off). DEP could have stopped this exploit from running, but it’s turned off for most applications in Windows by default. At this time, Alexander Sotirov […]

Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser. Many of the proposed features and some of […]

Firefox is vulnerable to the nasty Windows animated cursor flaw that can hand over control of your XP or Vista computer, according to a video posted by Determina, the company that originally discovered the vulnerability. In the Determina video, the speaker (possibly Alexander Sotirov, who posted the blog entry) says that under Vista, IE7’s Protected […]