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PayPal to block users with old browsers to cut back phishing

2008-04-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b45908 in Network World on Security
 
PayPal, eBay's electronic payment service, plans to take the dramatic step of locking out people using older versions of Web browsers in order to stem phishing attacks
 
Tags: electronic payment service, paypal, dramatic step, web browsers, ebay, attacks, stem, versions, plans
 
 
 
 
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Study: Unpatched Web browsers prevalent on the Internet

2008-07-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x847372c in Network World on Security
 
Only 59.1 percent of people use up-to-date, fully patched Web browsers, putting the remainder at risk from growing threats from diligent hackers, according to a new study published by researchers in Switzerland
 
Tags: web browsers, diligent hackers, study, switzerland, percent, researchers, remainder, threats, people
 
 
 
 
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Notes from IEEE Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP2008)

2008-05-27 22:45:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...browsers point of view, but don't necessarily have the same security policy per use intent. Because the web browser can't really distinguish between them, we don't have a clean way of separating the security policies here Collin went on to show a multitude of problems in the same origin policy between sites, and problems in the...
 
Tags: browser, browser security models, browser project, browser security model, security models, browser security, security, web, security challenges
 
 
 
 
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Adware and Spyware Such a Pain

2007-08-01 19:17:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...browsers worldwide. They have become a normal occurrence that we sometimes tend to ignore but God forbid we should never accept Spyware is computer software that spies on your internet usage. It collects highly personal and confidential information like credit card numbers, IPs and even addresses. The spyware program gets the credit card...
 
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Mashup of the Titans

2008-06-25 17:29:25 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator...). Operating systems are connectors that fasten users to computers; they attach to the computer at one end, the user at the other. Browsers fasten users to remote computers, to "servers" on the internet Today's operating systems and browsers are obsolete because people no longer want to be...
 
Tags: protection mechanisms, protection mechanisms correctly, information security, information, implements protection mechanisms, information travels, information security people, protection, potential information path
 
 
 
 
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Browser Insecurity

2008-07-03 07:02:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...browsers, using Google's web server logs. Why is this important? Because browsers are an increasingly popular attack vector. The results aren't good. ...at least 45.2%, or 637 million users, were not using the most secure Web browser version on any working day from January 2007 to June 2008. These browsers are an easy target for drive-by...
 
Tags: million, million users, web server logs, drive-by download attacks, browsers, technical solutions, internet explorer, global population, easy target
 
 
 
 
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Are you using the latest web browser?

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2008-07-16 13:24:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
...browsers are either not running the latest version of their preferred browser or have not installed the latest patches. These users are vulnerable to exploitation due to their web browser's "built-in" vulnerabilities and the lack of more recent security mechanisms such as improved phishing protection Neglected security patches Over the past...
 
Tags: browser, web browser, browser version, versions, secure versions, obsolete browser, web browser versions, web browser users, web
 
 
 
 
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The web browser is sick but wheres the cure?

2008-08-14 11:11:14 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...browsers diagnosis is the recent paper from Mark Dowd and Alexander Sotirov, sub-titled Setting back browser security by 10 years, which discusses how to bypass Microsoft Vistas memory protection capabilities with some added effort for the exploit designers. Its not that all of the techniques are necessarily new, but the browser appears to be...
 
Tags: browser, web browser, browser appears, web, cure, browser security, content, runs active content, browsers cure
 
 
 
 
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Download: Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis

2007-11-30 16:01:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...browsers a key tool when evaluating the security experience of users as the browser interprets Web content and programs delivered from around the world Over the past few years, there has been much discussion of the need for improvements in browser security, but few hard data studies performed to support assertions concerning the security of...
 
Tags: firefox, internet explorer, internet, firefox vulnerabilities, security, browser security, vulnerabilities, browser, web browser