Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Being safe while you surf the Web is extremely important, yet safe surfing sometimes seems like an oxymoron. For users of the Firefox browser, downloading security extensions can help increase your level of protection from worms, hackers, phishers, and the like.
I should note that even with these extensions installed, you ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Mark Larson, the Google Chrome Project Manager, has posted an advisory on the Google Chrome Releases blog advising of a high risk vulnerability in the Chrome web browser. The cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability is caused by an error in handling URLs in the ChromeHTML URI handler, allowing an attacker to ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Mozilla Firefox is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability.
An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected browser. Failed exploit attempt will result in a denial-of-service condition.
The following proof of concept is available:
http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/2009-ffox-poc.tar.gz
Posted in Coding, Internet, Security, Software | 1 Comment
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
A researcher has developed a browser extension that stops advertising networks from tracking a person's surfing habits, such as search queries and content they view on the web.
The extension, called Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO), enables its users to opt out of 27 advertising networks that are employing behavioural advertising ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Opera 9.64 is a recommended security and stability upgrade, incorporating the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine. Opera highly recommends all users to upgrade to Opera 9.64 to take advantage of these improvements.
Changes and improvements since Opera 9.63:
Security
Fixed an issue where specially crafted JPEG images ccould be used to execute ...
Posted in Internet, Software, Windows | 2 Comments
