Browser Security News

Research by vulnerability specialists Secunia suggests that third party applications are increasingly being used by malware writers in preference to using operating system attacks.

Mozilla Corp. on Tuesday patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta of its next open-source browser, Firefox 3.5.

Internet Explorer 7 and 8’s default security settings can be unsafe for internal, intranet-based Web applications, according to newly published research.

Microsoft’s April batch of security patches are out: 8 bulletins with patches for at least 20 documented vulnerabilities.

I’ve been working on a new Web site for the past few weeks. But instead of doing it alone, I decided to get some help from Firefox extensions. They’ve made my work a lot easier, and they all can be downloaded in just a few seconds.

Microsoft Corp. will begin pushing Internet Explorer 8 to users running the older IE6 and IE7 browsers next week, the company has announced. Although people running earlier versions of IE8 have been seeing upgrade offers since Microsoft released the final code last month, only now is the company getting around to posting the new browser [...]

Mozilla knows that you downloaded and installed Firefox when you launch the browser for the first time and the welcome landing page is displayed. But the organization found that there are 50,000 canceled installations every day, which translates to 18 million annually.

The Conficker worm is finally doing something–updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday.

Spam makes up close to 100 percent of all e-mail traffic on the Internet, according to Microsoft. In a new security report, Microsoft said that 97 percent of e-mails sent were destined for the junk folder, though most never made it to their destinations thanks to server-side filtering.

The Ghostnet botnet attack that has successfully exploited computer systems within government networks around the globe is being driven in part by an easy-to-use malware authoring toolkit that allows for simple and rapid propagation, researchers contend.