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Browsers beware: new holes in IE and Flash
News The problem is found in several browsers but not, apparently, in Netscape Navigator, although this isn't entirely clear yet. Internet Explorer, which accounts for greater than 80 percent of all Web browsers, has been found to have a problem in the...
[August 27, 2002, 12:24]
Battling browsers review
Reviews All three of these browsers have their pros and cons, but, like Internet Explorer, they’re all available for free. For most of us, the ‘browser wars’ are a thing of the past: we just use Internet Explorer and get on with our online lives.
[September 2, 2002, 13:12]
Comprehensive Analysis of Web Privacy and Anonymous Web Browsers: Are Next Generation Services Based on Collaborative Filtering?
White Papers This paper presents main web privacy issues and today's complex preventive solutions, anonymous web browsers, in several aspects including a comprehensive taxonomy as a result of the inquiry. In general, networking privacy enhancing technologies...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Mozilla browsers lure early adopters from IE
News The open-source Mozilla and Firefox browsers have won over a significant number of defectors from Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the past nine months, Web site metrics suggest. For example, W3Schools.com, a Web development tutorial site, found...
[September 16, 2004, 9:50]
Unpatched bugs bite popular browsers
News Newly disclosed, unpatched flaws in three browsers could make the Web a more dangerous place to surf, security experts have warned. The Firefox and Safari bugs could cause the browsers to crash, while the IE hole could be exploited to hijack a...
[April 26, 2006, 9:05]
Rival browsers benefit from MSN gaffe
News Microsoft's blockage of competing Web browsers from MSN.com has been good news for some plucky rivals: they are experiencing record traffic and downloads, and a leading Internet authority is heaping scorn on the software giant.
[November 1, 2001, 13:17]
Netscape to make browsers, source code free
News In complement to making the browsers free, Barksdale vowed to enhance subscriptions and support, but said "OEMs and ISPs will be able to download [client software] with no strings attached". In a dramatic about-turn that responds to the demands of...
[January 22, 1998, 18:24]
A Year Ago: Netscape claims 67 percent of browsers
News The company also said studies by Web auditing firm Media Metrix show that people use Netscape's browser longer and more often than competing browsers such as Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer. Netscape Communications Corp.said more than 25 million...
[November 26, 1998, 6:59]
Pop-up phishing flaw found in major browsers
News Security firm Secunia has warned that many popular Web browsers contain a vulnerability that could be used by cybercriminals to steal personal data. In an alert published on Tuesday, Secunia said that the flaw would allow a phishing attack where a...
[June 22, 2005, 14:15]
Two Pre-Release Browsers - Firefox 3.0RC1 and Opera 9.5 beta 2
Blog The two web browsers that I use both have pre-release versions available right now. Of course, there are a lot more changes and improvements in both of these browsers. I have downloaded and installed both of them on my test system, so that I could...
[May 20, 2008, 13:20]
Spyware takes aim at Mozilla browsers
Talkback "Spyware takes aim at Mozilla browsers" the spyware is only installed if users agree to a certain download" While I realize the MS toadies are rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of a Mozilla/Firefox spyware threat, this is hardly in the...
[February 9, 2005, 14:16]
Support standards, not multiple browsers
Talkback IE has, by far, the worst support of web standards of all major web browsers. Even so, it is certainly easiest to design first according to standards and then make tweaks to make sure all of the major browsers are doing what you want.
[August 26, 2005, 18:45]
Microsoft agrees to rival browsers in Windows
News In a reversal on Friday, Microsoft said it is now open to giving users in Europe a selection of browsers in Windows 7. Under our new proposal, among other things, European consumers who buy a new Windows PC with Internet Explorer set as their...
[July 24, 2009, 21:19]
Report: Outdated browsers put 637m users at risk
News A group of researchers on Tuesday said 637 million web users are surfing with outdated internet browsers and are, therefore, at greater risk of web-based attacks. Using data collected from Google web searches and security firm Secunia, the...
[July 2, 2008, 8:53]
Open-source browsers pick up steam
News However, the long-term success of these Java browsers could boil down to the same question that has plagued Mozilla in its 15 months of existence: Will enough developers get on board? Sun recently announced a deal with ally America Online to...
[July 15, 1999, 8:57]
MSN.com shuts out non-Microsoft browsers
News A move to favouring Internet Explorer over other browsers would give Microsoft considerable leverage as it prepares to jump into the world of Web services. While the software leviathan's Internet Explorer easily reaches MSN, other browsers -- such...
[October 25, 2001, 17:27]
Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE
News Mozilla Web browsers are currently potentially more vulnerable to attack than Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), according to a Symantec report out on Monday; the same report also found that today's hackers are still focusing their efforts on IE.
[September 19, 2005, 14:00]
Puppetnets: Misusing Web Browsers as a Distributed Attack Infrastructure
White Papers This paper attempts to quantify the threat of browsers being indirectly misused for attacking third parties. Specifically, the paper looks at how the existing Web infrastructure (e.g.the languages, protocols, and security policies) can be exploited...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Dynamic Pharming Attacks and Locked Same-Origin Policies for Web Browsers
White Papers To counter dynamic pharming attacks, the paper proposes two locked same-origin policies for web browsers. In contrast to the legacy same-origin policy, which regulates cross-object access control in browsers using domain names, the locked same...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Securing Frame Communication in Browsers
White Papers Frames, however, are often insufficient isolation primitives because most browsers let framed content manipulate other frames through navigation. The paper evaluates existing frame navigation policies and advocate a stricter policy, which the paper...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
