Mozilla Patch Plugs a Safari Hole

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Mozilla Corp. has patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, taking the unusual step of updating the older version 2.0 on Tuesday but delaying the fixes for the newer version 3.0 until Wednesday. Both updates, labeled Firefox 2.0.0.16 and Firefox 3.0.1, plug two holes rated "critical" by Mozilla, which uses ...

Which Browser Users Are More Secure?

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Some new statistics just came out regarding Browser Security, this is more in terms of which users are most likely to apply patches and be using the most secure version.I would have thought Firefox would have been pretty high since the newer series prompt automatically new patches. My only guess ...

Microsoft Unveils New Internet Explorer Security Features

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Internet Explorer's getting a little bit safer. Microsoft Wednesday unveiled significant new security features that will be in the next version of the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, currently in public beta testing. From Microsoft's standpoint, any improvement in security is a plus, and the company seems to be taking ...

Firefox 2.0.0.15 is out

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

For those of you that haven't yet made the move to Firefox 3.0, the Mozilla folks have released Firefox 2.0.0.15 which according to the release notes link (see below) fixes a security vulnerability. However, the "known vulnerabilities" page (linked from the release notes page) doesn't include any info (yet) ...

637 million Web surfers using old browsers open to hackers

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Updated your Web browser lately? Ever? If not, you and 637 million other Net surfers with outdated, insecure browsers are inviting criminal hackers into your computer, researchers warn.Using Internet Explorer? You're likely to be one of the biggest offenders.The researchers wanted to know why so many recent attacks have been ...