Browser Security News

Internet Explorer 8 is going to be the most standards-compliant IE yet, but it’s going about it in a way that has some people scratching their heads. With Internet Explorer 8, you have a choice in standards compliance modes. Sound oxymoronic? Shouldn’t there be one standards mode by default? Heck, shouldn’t the only mode be […]

As we mentioned a while back, Mozilla is working on a mobile version of Firefox and now the company has taken the wraps off some of its initial design ideas, offering a first glimpse of what mobile Firefox may look like. Keep in mind that this preview is largely intended to gather community feedback, and […]

Often I tunnel my web traffic through a SSH connection to a remote machine to have my HTTP and HTTPs connections originate from it. I do this for many reasons, the most common being that

IE7 Coming Through On WSUS, Blocker Toolkit Or Not Larry Seltzer here, pointing you to this recent Knowledge Base article with Microsoft’s announcement that Internet Explorer 7 will be distributed through WSUS (Windows Software Update Services) on Feb. 12, 2008, which is the next Patch Tuesday. It will appear as an "Update Rollup."

A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users’ bank data by intercepting account information before it is encrypted and sending it to a central attacker database. The Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Silentbanker by security software company Symantec, can intercept online banking transactions that normally are well guarded by two-factor authentication procedures.

Microsoft has warned corporate administrators that it will push a new version of Internet Explorer 7 their way next month, and it has posted guidelines on how to ward off the automatic update if admins want to keep the older IE6 browser on their companies’ machines. The IE7 upgrade scheduled to roll out via WSUS […]

As part of its continuing effort to humanize the Web, open source browser vendor Mozilla is getting some new humans for its development effort. John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, confirmed in an e-mailed statement sent to InternetNews.com that Mozilla has hired three of the principals from Humanized, a small user interface development startup.

After the release of Firefox 2.0, the memory leak has become an even more notorious problem than before. On average, Firefox should take up no more than 80MB of RAM. Any more than that and you can consider yourself a victim of Firefox’s memory leak. I’m sure you’ve probably already seen a ton of guides […]

Hackers armed with a Web browser and a rigged SWF (Shockwave) file can fire code execution exploits at most modern Wi-Fi routers, according to a warning from researchers at the GNUCITIZEN think-tank. The researchers, Adrian Pastor and Petko D. Petkov (pictured left), have found an easy way to use Shockwave files embedded on Web […]

Disabling the majority of features in a web browser may be your safest bet for keeping malicious hackers at bay, according to a US-based IT security watchdog. The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said in a report released on Thursday: "Many web applications try to enhance your browsing experience by enabling different types of […]