Archive for the ‘Web Browsers’ Category
Friday, September 25th, 2009
It is well known the fact that Internet Explorer browser rendering speed is quite low in case of web applications and pages which uses your system resources intensively. Google has came with a simple solution to boost the Internet Explorer performance and the level of compatibility with modern web based applications: Google Chrome Frame, a new free plug-in that will introduce Google Chrome’s web technologies and a faster JavaScript rendering engine into Internet Explorer. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Portable web browsers have many advantages when you are using several computers: just plug-in the USB drive and you are ready to go with all settings and bookmarks in place, without the need to synchronize data or perform the software installation. Over the Internet there are already published the portable versions of popular web browsers, like Firefox or Opera for example. (more…)
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
As any other applications, the software platforms which power the mobile devices like iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile are vulnerable to viruses. By using a fuzzing based test method, the security experts Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner have injected SMS messages locally in an iPhone, without the need of a mobile operator network and have demonstrated how a virus can be enabled on an iPhone device in the absence of phone user participation, just by receiving a SMS. (more…)
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
You may know, that the majority of the Internet connected computers are equipped with Adobe Flash Player. Due to the recently discovered critical security vulnerabilities of Flash Player (9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) for Windows, Mac and Linux, as well as of authplay.dll component included in the Adobe Reader and Acrobat software, you are strongly advised to disable the support for Flash files rendering in web browsers and other software capable to manage Flash applications. Practically, the security vulnerability affects Flash in essence, and due to the fact that there are already served tons of Flash files in ads, games and various software applications, your computer could be one of the millions potential targets for attackers. (more…)
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
It could be hard to believe, but after the recent release of Firefox 3.5.1 update, a new security flaw that allows remote code execution through JavaScript code was discovered. A proof of concept for the exploit code was also made public and it works, because Mozilla Firefox browser is still vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The attacker could generate the buffer overflow by sending long Unicode strings to the document.write method and in this way is possible the remote code execution to compromise an operating system or a DOS (Denial Of Service) attack.
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
As reported by the Milw0rm website, Firefox 3.5 has one big security vulnerability (entitled Firefox 3.5 Heap Spray Vulnerabilty) which exists in Tracemonkey, the new JavaScript rendering engine developed by Mozilla. The instructions for hackers regarding how to use the Firefox 3.5 security flaw can be found already online, therefore an attacker is able to take total control of any computer running Firefox 3.5 through remote code execution techniques, because a patch is not yet available. Mozilla has confirmed the existence of the Firefox browser vulnerability in the way in which JavaScript is handled by Tracemonkey engine.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
On July 06, 2009, Microsoft has made public the existence of a severe security flaw in Internet Explorer, caused by a vulnerability discovered in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control. As a consequence, if any attacker succeeds in exploiting this security leak of Internet Explorer browser, then the user computer could be remotely controlled by the attacker, with the same access rights over the machine resources and data, as the ones corresponding to the owner.
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
According to Wikipedia, various client applications used with a certain network protocols are defined as user agents. They could be web browsers, email clients, search engine robots, mobile phones and more. The user agent is identified through an unique string sent in the HTTP request to the web server. As a consequence, the user agent string allows the differentiation between robots and real visitors in the traffic statistics using the server log files. On the other hand, the changing of the browser user agent string into one corresponding to a search engine bot could give you unrestricted access to password protected information on forums or blogs, because the spiders are usually allowed to index all website content.
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
A team of researchers from Microsoft has published a paper called “The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser”, in which there is described the model of a new browser prototype, as well as the testing results. The browser is called Gazelle and is conceived as a multi-principal OS (a principal is the equivalent of a website) – the most secure web browser ever built until now, with its own Kernel, an operating system that manages the protection of resources in an exclusive manner.
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
The latest version of the Safari web browser (3.2.2), designed for Windows operating system represents a security update that solves the RSS vulnerability reported one month ago. This security issue affected both Windows, as well as Mac OS X systems through the arbitrary code execution during the accessing of a maliciously crafted feed URL. In case of Mac OS X users that will apply the Security Update 2009-001, the RSS vulnerability will be automatically patched.
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Firefox web browser was recently updated to the version 3.0.6. In this update several security issues and a long list of bugs were fixed. This release is a part of the Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing security and stability process. Firefox 2.0.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade the browser to the latest version because the 2.0.0.x series are no longer supported and as a consequence, the existing vulnerabilities could affect their computer.
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Critical security updates were released for both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer web browsers. In case of Internet Explorer browser, the MS08-078 security update solves the vulnerability found in versions 5.01, 6, 6 Service Pack 1, 7 and 8 beta 2. The security flaw patched by this update could allow the remote code execution while the user visits certain web pages (related article: Microsoft Security Advisory Reveals A Major Vulnerability of Internet Explorer).
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
The web browsers market is dominated by the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser, given the number of users across the world wide. The Microsoft Security Advisory describes a new major security flaw that was discovered in Internet Explorer web browser: a certain vulnerability of the browser will allow to an attacker to gain the control of users computers through remote code execution.
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