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Security Researchers: 'Did Google Pull a Fast One on Firefox and Safari Users?'
Social engineering comes in all flavors, from white hats pen testing enterprise security to plain old criminals -- who happen to play in the cyber world -- so cyber criminals who want you to click on a link for a drive-by-download, otherwise convince you to download malware, or who use phishing attacks to bait you into believing lies and inputting vital life, sensitive business, or financial information. It is that brand of lowlife conman and type of being maliciously tricked that makes cyber surfing potentially unsafe. All of the major web browsers have some sort of protection built in. Read more
My favorite Android browser is... something you may not have heard of!
So as you've likely seen, Google is finally releasing a mobile version of Chrome for Android, albeit on a very limited basis. This is good news for a lot of reasons, the chief being that the default Android browser is pretty boring and nowhere near up to Chrome's standards. The folks at Opera have predictably been all like, "Uh-UH! Read more
In The Browser War Does The Tortoise Beat The Hare?
IE 6 is Finally Dead. Long Live IE9 (Please?)
After begging, pleading, and nearly coming to people's houses to bust their kneecaps, Microsoft has gotten its wish: Internet Explorer 6, which just passed its 10th birthday, is now as dead as the Zune. Read more
Is Chrome The Most Secure Browser Or Is Google Gaming The System?
Last July I wrote about a study by NSS Labs about which browser was most secure. Based on "socially engineered malware", NSS Labs concluded that Microsoft's IE was most secure. Read more
Chrome gains market share as IE drops nearly 2 percentage points
It won't be long before Microsoft's share of the desktop browser market dips below 50%, if Internet Explorer continues to lose usage share at its current clip.
In the month of October, IE lost nearly two percentage points, falling to 52.63% of the desktop browser market from 54.39% in September, according to data from NetApplications.com. Read more
Microsoft launches Firefox, Chrome attack campaign
In what has become a classic Microsoft-ism, the folks in Redmond on Tuesday launched a website to convince the world that Internet Explorer is the only true safe browser, at least in comparison to Chrome and Firefox. The site YourBrowserMatters.org rates the security of browsers on a 1-4 scale. It tells those who use Firefox and Chrome why their browsers don't rate -- and is pretty much not interested in any other browsers. Read more
Which Browser Is The Most Secure?
My friends at NSS Labs have done some great work over the last few years in testing firewalls, IPS, anti-malware and even browsers. They just released their latest results on browser security against socially-engineered malware. The report is for the European market and is available for free download here. The report looked at almost all of the leading browsers including IE 8 and 9, Firefox 4, Chrome 10, Safari 5 and Opera 11. Read more
Grandson Of Browser Wars: Open Source Is Not Enough
It seems for as long as there has been an Internet, there has been a browser war. Lynx, Mosaic, Netscape Navigator are names that conjure up browsing the web in a simpler time. I still remember well Microsoft coming out with IE and knocking the high flying Netscape off its perch. Many of us were thrilled when Mozilla Firefox rose from the ashes of AOL owned Netscape and became a hipper, cooler way of browsing. Read more
Microsoft turns the table on Google, discloses Chrome security bugs
Google has a habit of telling the world when it finds a security problem in Microsoft software. The officials in Redmond like to wring their hands and complain about Google putting Microsoft customers at risk, but eventually they just acknowledge the bugs and fix them as best they can. Read more
Pardon me, Mr. Page: A few requests for the new Google CEO
Larry Page is once again the CEO at Google, taking over yesterday from longtime chief Eric Schmidt. It sounds like he's ready to shake things up, forcing Google to act more like the startup it used to be. Product chief Jonathan Rosenberg is already on his way out. Read more
IE9 tops Firefox 4, if you just ignore all those Windows XP users
Microsoft hyped the release of Internet Explorer 9 as much as it could, but it wasn't enough to stop the juggernaut of Firefox 4. Within days, it was clear Mozilla won the war to get the most user downloads.
But Microsoft complained that the comparison wasn't really fair and it has a point. IE9 is only for Windows 7 (well, Vista too), while Firefox works on any operating system whether it's Windows, Mac or Linux. That makes a big difference since more than half of computer users still run Windows XP. Read more
Pwn2Own 2011: Hackers Shame Safari and IE8 on Day One
Well it's March and time for the fifth annual Pwn2Own hacker challenge at CanSecWest security conference. The big surprise is not that IE8 or Safari were shamed on day one, it's that no one took on Chrome and Google's offer to pay an additional $20,000 to the first hacker to crack that browser. Read more
Top 12 Google Labs experiments
Take thousands of the world's most brilliant engineers and tell them to spend 20% of their time on whatever takes their fancy. Then give them a home for the results. That playground exists at Google Labs.
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Internet Explorer 9 RC released today, on heels of Chrome 9
Microsoft has released the RC version of Internet Explorer 9. The RC version of IE9 comes on the heels of Google's Chrome 9, released earlier this week.
Chrome 9 fixed a bunch of security holes, but it now also includes built-in support for WebGL, a 3D graphics rendering engine being pushed by Google and, so far, not supported by Internet Explorer. WebGL is based on the OpenGL ES 2.0 API, which is an alternative to Microsoft’s Direct3D, an API that has become the de facto standard for PC gaming. Read more
Google wants to hire more than 6,000 workers in 2011
Google seems poised to hire more than 6,000 people this year all goes according to plan. That amazing fact was posted on the company's website by Alan Eustace, Google's senior vice president of engineering and research. Read more
Open source status report reveals good health and profits
Over the last 15 years I have been an avid user and “developer” (actually more of a facilitator) of open source software. Read more
Opera 11 release keeps browser relevant, innovative
Opera 11, the little Web browser that could, was introduced today from Opera Software ASA, tucked away in Oslo, Norway, time zones away from its U.S. West Coast competitors Microsoft, Mozilla, Google and Apple. But in introducing Opera 11, its CTO, Håkon Wium Lie, gives browser giant Internet Explorer credit for not just resting on its nearly 60 percent market share, but innovating again, particularly in IE9. Read more
Why Mozilla doesn't back Free Flash players
Despite Apple's best efforts to make it go away, the Web is still littered with Flash-based sites and content. The lack of an open source alternative to Adobe's Flash player is still a major pain point for Linux users and vendors, and the proprietary player is a big source of bug reports for Mozilla. Which brings the question: Why hasn't Mozilla backed one of the projects to create an open source player? Read more
Welcome to Browser War III, Brought To You By Open Source
The shots are really flying in Browser War III, the mother of all browser wars. In this version of the browser war, open source is playing the part of the arms dealer, giving all of the combatants the ammunition to fight. The latest combatant is Flock, which today announced its long anticipated v.3.5. With this release Flock is offering a "socially aware" browser that is built on the open source Chromium platform. Read more
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