February 14, 2009 3:54 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Browsers,
Firefox,
Internet Explorer,
Malware,
Microsoft Windows,
Opera,
Secure Computing,
Vulnerabilities,
Zero-day vulnerabilitySecurity is a complicated process, leaving many to desire a magic bullet. Unfortunately, there isn't one. No matter how much security developers build into software, the behavior of the person seated in the chair will always be the weak link. Truth be told, all of the major browsers are safer than...
December 21, 2008 11:19 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Anti-malware,
Browsers,
Firefox,
Internet Explorer,
Opinion,
Phishing,
Security,
VulnerabilitiesSecurity Fix reports that on December 16, Mozilla released its final update to Firefox 2, and plans no...
December 12, 2008 9:44 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Critical update,
Firefox,
Internet Explorer,
Malware,
Opinion,
Remote Code Execution,
Security,
Security bulletin,
Vulnerabilities,
Zero-day exploit,
Zero-day vulnerabilityEven though Microsoft released the biggest batch of patches ever on Tuesday--28 flaws affecting Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic Active Controls and Windows Media Player, 23 of them rated “critical”--there's no fix for a zero-day XML parser vulnerability that surfaced the same...
October 30, 2008 3:13 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Browsers,
Clickjacking,
Firefox,
Internet Explorer,
Malware,
SecurityLess than a month after the clickjacking exploit came to light, sporadic reports of users falling victim to the attack are beginning to surface.
October 27, 2008 9:29 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Browsers,
Clickjacking,
Firefox,
Internet Explorer,
Microsoft Windows,
Secure Computing,
SecurityEveryone agrees that it just isn't safe out there on the Wild, Wild, Web and while Microsoft has made huge strides in securing Internet Explorer, the fact that IE continues to use ActiveX scripting technology makes it the least secure browser. I often recommend that people not use IE unless they...
September 28, 2008 4:39 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Browsers,
Clickjacking,
Cybercrime,
Firefox,
Internet Explorer,
Phishing,
Security,
VulnerabilitiesAccording to US-CERT's latest alert, "Multiple Web Browsers Affected by Clickjacking," there's a new cross-browser exploit technique called "Clickjacking." One
August 8, 2008 3:44 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Browsers,
Firefox,
Internet Explorer,
Microsoft Windows,
Secure Computing,
SecurityTwo of the biggest mistakes Microsoft ever made were tying Internet Explorer into the Windows OS and ActiveX. Exploits took advantage of both and some of the nastiest malware ever written entered millions of PCs through these...
