Browser Security News

You may not have realised this until now but Mozilla Firefox has its own version of the Windows Registry, where all your preferences are stored. In the browser, it can be accessed by typing in the address bar. But what, in the future, if you have to re-install Firefox from scratch? You may have spent […]

Opera chief executive Jon S. von Tetzchner flew in from Norway for an update on the company’s Web browser, including the claim that the next version could be about ten times faster than Internet Explorer. According to von Tetzchner, Opera’s is expanding into the mobile market. And, not surprisingly, the upcoming Opera 9.5 revision will […]

With a new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla Corp. hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft Corp.’s still-dominant Internet Explorer software. But Mountain View, Calif.-based Mozilla continues to expend little energy on wooing IT managers to formally adopt Firefox for […]

The Case for SSH Proxies The rise of Web 2.0 and the increasing availability of Wi-Fi access now means that you can do more than ever away from your home or office. But there is an associated risk. Using someone else’s network makes you highly vulnerable to information theft.

It’s incredible to see all the things that can be done in a browser these days. It’s also incredible that we persist in exposing it all through a browser. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my 21st-century software life lived within the ugly vestiges of the 20th century. The browser, for me, […]

Web sites that naively call for user input, then fail to put strict checks on what that input may be, are susceptible to SQL injection attacks. That vulnerability appears to be the cause of up to 70,000 Web pages getting hacked by malicious code between Dec. 28 and Jan. 5..

Just hours after Mozilla Corp. debuted its first viral marketing campaign, it shuttered the Web site and apologized to users for what it admitted were offensive statistics used to promote Firefox. The Web site, part of what Mozilla dubbed the "Firefox Users against Boredom" program, included a long list of statistics that purported to compare […]

Israeli security specialist Aviv Raff has described how a vulnerability in the method used by Firefox to display authentication dialogs can allow phishers to obtain username and password information. Basic authentication is used to restrict access to a website by requesting a user name and password.

In the past few years, Mozilla’s open-source Firefox browser has done what most people would have considered impossible, which is chip away at Microsoft’s choke-hold on the browser market. Considering Microsoft’s advantages in this market–Internet Explorer comes pre-installed on nearly every PC–this is nothing short of amazing.