Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer Officially Out of Beta

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

Adblock Plus, the #1 most popular browser extension for blocking annoying online advertisements, today confirmed that Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer (IE) is officially out of beta and available for download worldwide. Adblock Plus for IE is an add-on for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser which adds functions that Internet Explorer’s built-in tracking protection ...

The Pirate Bay releases censorship-thwarting browser

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

The operators of The Pirate Bay, one of the most (in)famous piracy sites on the Internet, have decided to celebrate the site's 10th anniversary by releasing a web browser that allows users to access TPB or other sites censored in their country. "PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client ...

Use Splunk to show your active netstat connections, geographically

Friday, July 5th, 2013

I was geeking out a bit tonight thinking about a friend's situation and thought that I could probably do something useful in Splunk that might be helpful to others.  Sure enough, a few minutes later and I am viewing all my active netstat connections geographically as they are established:   Once the ...

Security breach stopped (Opera)

Wednesday, June 26th, 2013

At Opera Software, we are committed to the security and privacy of our users. This is paramount to us, and as such, we want to share the details of a recent incident with you. On June 19th we uncovered, halted and contained a targeted attack on our internal network infrastructure. Our ...

Microsoft talks more about IE10 security features

Saturday, June 22nd, 2013

In May, NSS Labs issued the results of its study of web browsers in terms of blocking malware. It showed Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 blocking 99.96 percent of all malware during their test period, which was a much better percentage than Chrome or Firefox. Today, Microsoft went over some of the features ...