Browser Security News

Problem: You cannot imagine life without Firefox but over time, your favorite browser keeps getting slower and slower. Not only is it slow, Firefox sometimes hangs for no reason, consumes a large amount of memory and CPU usage can climb to 90% or more when you have multiple tabs open simultaneously. You have uninstalled most […]

How far along is Microsoft with the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) — which might be IE 7.5 or IE 8.0, depending on what Microsoft decided to do since last time we heard anything truly tangible from the IE team (which was about a year ago)? Internet Explorer 8.0: The silence is deafeningPosters on […]

Nobody likes having someone always looking over their shoulder, but you may get that feeling after you’ve browsed a while and then take a peek inside your Cookies folder. Most of the Web-tracking cookies that violate your privacy are owned not by the sites you visit but by companies that advertise on them.

My good friend Daniel asked me yesterday how to change Firefox so that Shift+Enter auto-completes *.org instead of *.net. After about a 2 minute google session, I had the answer to share with everybody. If you are unfamiliar with how this works, you can enter in howtogeek into the address bar, and use Ctrl+Enter instead […]

Mozilla Corp. has fixed a critical bug in the way the Firefox browser works with QuickTime media files. The flaw, which was reported last week by hacker Petko Petkov, gives attackers a way to run unauthorized commands on a victim’s PC. "This could be used to install malware, steal local data, or otherwise corrupt the […]

McAfee, Inc. today announced the achievement of a significant milestone in consumer protection: McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), the world’s leading safe search and surf technology, has been downloaded more than 75 million times by Internet users. McAfee is the leading security provider offering the integrated proactive and preventative protection of SiteAdvisor, with easy-to-understand safety ratings that clearly […]

Firefox has achieved what many thought impossible and overturned Microsoft’s browser monopoly. This week the company announced that the browser had achieved 400 million downloads. We caught up with Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, to find out why the open-source browser has been so successful and get the latest news on Firefox 3.

US-CERT is aware of working publicly available exploit code that targets users with Firefox and Quicktime installed. This exploit allows a remote, unauthenticated attack to execute arbitrary commands on an affected system. US-CERT will provide additional information as it becomes available.

It seems harmless enough at first, the desire to keep ads from overtaking the content you wish to view from your favorite websites. But what so many people seem to fail to understand is that many of these content providers are using ads to make a living. Otherwise, there would be no time to gather […]

Billy Rios and Nate McFeters, who spelled out design and functionality vulnerabilities in Windows’ Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol handling as recently as mid-August, said Saturday that they have uncovered another way hackers could send malicious code to users via browsers. "Once again, these URI payloads can be passed by the mailto, nntp, news, and […]