Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Microsoft's IE8 browser includes a keystroke-logging search suggestion tool similar to the one that Google modified on Monday after coming under fire from consumers.
Unlike Chrome, IE8 Beta 2 does not enable the feature - which some have compared to a keylogger - by default. One privacy expert said that was ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.
Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Google has confirmed that it is launching Google Chrome, a new web browser. Rumours of a Google browser project had been around since 2004, but a posting on the Blogoscoped site has turned those rumours into something much more tangible. It reported on the arrival of a 38 page comic ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
The rumors were right: Internet Explorer 8 will have new privacy features akin to those in Apple Safari. What role should they play in the enterprise?
InPrivate Browsing ("Private Browsing" was already taken by Apple) lets the user control whether or not IE saves potentially privacy-related data, including cookies (all cookies ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Although Windows XP was Microsoft's preferred desktop operating system for an unprecedented length of time, it became something of a PR nightmare for the software giant. Windows XP is full of security holes and is very easy to compromise. When Microsoft created Windows Vista, its primary goal was to address ...
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