Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Google has discovered a vulnerability in its Chrome web browser that can allow an attacker to execute his own commands on a vulnerable Windows system. The vulnerability requires that the victim has previously installed Chrome, but is visiting a rigged web page using another browser, such as Internet Explorer.According to ...
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009 As of right now, it appears any google search you do will come up with all the same results as before. What has changed is that it appears to be reporting that every site might contain malware (i.e. it shows the "This site may harm your computer" warning with every ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009 IE8 and Google Chrome both have a great feature that helps users detect phishing websites by highlighting the root domain when you browse to a page. You can get this functionality in Firefox with an add-on called Locationbar that is available here:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014Screenshot:
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner , ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009 Google has quietly released a pre-beta version of Google Chrome 2.0 with a new HTTPS-only browsing mode.The new feature lets users add “force-https to your Google Chrome shortcut” to only load Web sites with valid security certificates. “Sites with SSL certificate errors will not load,” the company explained.The newest Chrome ...
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