http://www.browsersecuritynews.com Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:38:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google will suspend Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) support for its Gmail and Calendar services later this year, the company said today. The move will come at some point after March 1, when Google will start scaling back IE6 support for Google Docs and Google Sites. Google announced that decision on ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/760/gmail-to-drop-ie6-support-this-year.html While Microsoft is touting the fact Internet Explorer 8 is the single most widely used Web browser, the combined percentages of IE 6 and 7 users surpass it. The use of the older browsers means many users aren't taking advantage of the latest browser security protections. Arguably one of the most ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/758/older-ie-versions-maintain-sizable-market-share-despite-security-concerns.html Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the audience at the 2009 Crunchies Awards in San Francisco that Web users have become more accepting of information sharing in the past several years - a change he said has guided Facebook's privacy strategy. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently declared that privacy has become less ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/756/facebook-ceo-privacy-not-the-social-norm.html Mozilla has fixed a flaw in Firefox's upgrade mechanism that had prevented many users from migrating to the newer version 3.5. The new Firefox 3.5.7 and Firefox 3.0.17 also included a patch for a bug that Mozilla's programmers introduced in mid-December, when they last issued a security update. Mozilla regularly offers ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/754/mozilla-fixes-upgrade-flaw-in-firefox.html We predicted it would happen, and it finally has: Internet Explorer 8 has surpassed IE6, easily the most hated version of Microsoft's browser among the tech-savvy, after passing IE7 the month before that. At the time, we also predicted that Firefox's steady gain would result in the browser passing the ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/752/chrome-grabs-market-share-from-ie-and-firefox-passes-safari.html Adobe Reader and Flash will surpass Microsoft Office applications as favorite targets of cybercriminals, a security vendor predicted Tuesday. In unveiling its 2010 Threat Predictions report, McAfee said the growing popularity of the Adobe products has attracted the attention of cybercriminals, who have been increasingly targeting the applications. Adobe Reader and ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/750/adobe-to-surpass-microsoft-as-hacker-target.html Microsoft released fixes on Tuesday for critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, including one for which exploit code has been released. Adobe, meanwhile, was scheduled to release a critical update affecting Flash Player and Adobe AIR, following news of exploit code being released for a vulnerability in Illustrator CS3 and CS4 on ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/748/microsoft-plugs-zeroday-ie-hole.html Google's closely watched foray into computer operating systems could speed the development of a new class of cheaper laptops and dramatically advance the netbook paradigm of Web-based computing. Computers running Google's less-demanding Chrome OS should be even leaner, simpler and more inexpensive than the already no-frills netbooks that have flooded the ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/746/google-chrome-could-reshape-pc-experience.html The beleaguered EU edition of Windows 7 has taken another twist, with Microsoft agreeing to randomise the list of the most popular browsers during the operating system’s setup. The previous plan, hatched earlier this year, arrayed the five leading browsers according to alphabetic order of the vendor or parent company. This ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/744/microsoft-introduces-browser-shuffle-ballot-in-windows-7.html One of the ways Microsoft plans to push Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 users to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 is convincing them the latest version is much more secure, which it is. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, last week posted a story on the IEBlog ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/742/microsoft-aims-at-ie6-holdouts-highlights-security-2.html In its third annual report on the riskiest Web domains, McAfee says attackers are using Cameroon's domain name as part of typo-squatting schemes to infect users with malware. McAfee’s list of the most dangerous Web domains has a new leader. Africa’s Cameroon(.cm) domain has taken the top spot from Hong Kong(.hk) ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/740/security-hardware-it-security-software.html Opera has shipped a new version of its browser to fix three security vulnerabilities, one rated “extremely severe.” The most serious flaw could allow a malicious attacker to take complete control of a system, Opera said in an advisory. Passing very long strings through the string to number conversion using JavaScript ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/736/opera-patches-extremely-severe-security-hole.html Mozilla will add a new lockdown feature to Firefox 3.6 that will prevent developers from sneaking addons into the program, the company said. The new feature, which Mozilla dubbed "component directory lockdown," will bar access to Firefox's "components" directory, where most of the browser's own code is stored. The company has ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/733/firefox-web-browser-locks-down-rogue-addons.html The upcoming Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 releases, currently in beta, will check the version of Adobe Flash plug-in installed in the browser and warn the user if that plug-in is out of date. Johnathan Nightingale, "Human Shield" (Security Lead) at Mozilla confirmed the new security feature to The H ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/732/mozilla-to-protect-adobe-flash-users-update-2.html Today, Opera has announced the release of the Opera 10 Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. Are the new features and performance increases enough to beat out other popular browsers? The answer: it depends mostly on your choice of platform. Opera has a history of introducing ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/730/opera-10-faster-with-new-features.html People eager to get a copy of the latest version of the Mac operating system, Snow Leopard, should be wary of sites offering free copies because they are likely to get some nasty malware instead, according to antivirus company Trend Micro. Trend Micro said in a blog posting on Wednesday that ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/729/beware-fake-snow-leopard-sites.html Google has been forced to release new security fixes for multiple high severity vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser which could lead to an attacker taking over a victim's PC remotely. The flaws, which were issued as part of the Chrome 2.0.172.43 update sent automatically to users, include two rated 'high severity' ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/728/google-fixes-severe-chrome-flaws.html Hackers using multi-exploit attack "toolkits" take defensive measures of their own against other criminals, a security researcher said today. "Exploit kit operators do use mainstream browsers, but they're much more likely to use Opera than the average user, because they know that the browser isn't targeted by other hackers," said Paul ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/727/one-in-four-hackers-runs-opera-to-ward-off-other-criminals.html Research by vulnerability specialists Secunia suggests that third party applications are increasingly being used by malware writers in preference to using operating system attacks. The Danish company said that data from its free Personal Software Inspector (PSI) tool showed that there were far more unpatched applications than operating systems among users. ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/726/users-not-patching-third-party-apps.html 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. Of the dozen flaws fixed in Firefox 3.0.9, four were rated "critical," two "high," two "moderate" and four "low" in Mozilla's four-step ... http://www.browsersecuritynews.com/725/mozilla-patches-12-firefox-bugs-a-third-of-them-critical.html