Archive for the 'Web browsers' Category

Google Chrome attracts users from around the world like a new shiny toy, but security experts recommend waiting till security issues are fixed. Vulnerabilities of popular software are reported every day. Things are like that because the more widespread application is; the more computers are infected when security holes are found. Chrome web browser being […]

Large scale survey finds 40 percent of internet users surfing with unsafe web browsers. Researchers from IBM, Google and the Communication Systems Groups combined efforts to find out if computers owners care about safety of their web browsers and the results were not as good as expected.
The study was based on Google logs that recorded […]

People tend to rely on wireless networks a lot these days, but there are things concerning the security measures employed in this method of connectivity that people don't know about, thus putting themselves in danger of being spied on.
It should first be noted, that wireless networks are less safe due to their nature: to spy […]

One of the methods of phishing your personal information is to direct you to a spoofed site, that looks exactly how it's supposed to, but the appearance is just a trick to lead you to a site designed specifically to collect your personal info. Firefox released an add-on that will help identify sites that have […]

Recently Microsoft announced that it would release necessary patches for a vulnerability related to the URI (uniform resource identifier) protocol handling technology. The problem lies in the way applications, such as Adobe Acrobat, are executed by browsers. Even though Microsoft's original stance was that the creators of applications in question should be held accountable for […]

A project against phishing, Phishtank, has released a report with the annual statistics on this issue. Phishtank has a community of self-proclaimed phish-fighters, who report websites they suspect to be partaking in the activity. The websites are then checked by Phishtank's experts to verify whether it is actually the case. A new effort Phishtank has […]

Sun Microsystems, the company behind Java Runtime Environment (JRE), has released an update that fixes many security flaws, indluding some that could allow hackers to compromise or steal data from unpatched systems.
Java has long been known to be a means for e-criminals' to further their cause, since  an  estimated  600  million users worldwide use JRE. […]

Although China has been accused of government-backed attacks (against New Zealand in particular), China itself has been attacked: one of the country's internet security sites (or at least a few pages of it) contains malicious code. The particular malicious code in the website is an iFrame, or a hidden window, which allows code such as […]

Apple’s Quicktime and Microsoft Windows Media Player could continue to be ways of infection regardless of what the default internet browser a user has. This is due to two different exploits which have been recently found by security experts.
Even though Mozilla has patched Firefox, it’s users are still vulnerable to the QuickTime flaw, as Apple […]

Even though Apple’s new product, The iPhone, is yet to be compromised by security risks, there are potential ways hackers can use to do so.

Marius Van Oers, a security researcher for McAffe, has made a presentation in a security conference held in Vienna explaining a few ways that could be used to infect the iPhone.

The […]