Archive for the Browsers Category
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German government warns against using MS Explorer
It's that time again, the time we have seen plenty in the history of existence of Internet Explorer, were there are dangerous exploits in the browser. However this time the German government is warning not to use the Microsoft browser on grounds t
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Avast installer is now bundled with Chrome
Another vendor bites the dust in order to keep up with sales and bundled a third party software within the installer. However this time it isn't the dreaded Ask.com toolbar, but Google's Chrome. Posted and reported over at Calendar of Updates, you
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (22/11/2009)
Welcome to another blog post of Sunday NewsBot. All articles in the NewsBot Centre are imported from blog and site feeds from the world of security and technology and gathered in our centre. This weeks top articles are: Yahoo site flaw uncovered
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (15/11/2009)
Welcome to another blog post of Sunday NewsBot. All articles in the NewsBot Centre are imported from blog and site feeds from the world of security and technology and gathered in our centre. This weeks top articles are: Softpedia's exclusive inte
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (27/09/2009)
Welcome to this weeks round-up. All articles in the NewsBot Centre are imported from blog and site feeds from the world of security and technology. This weeks articles are: Dell to acquire Perot for $3.9bn Google Confirms That Keyword Metatags
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (13/09/2009)
Welcome to this weeks round-up. All articles in the NewsBot Centre are imported from blog and site feeds from the world of security and technology. This weeks top articles are: T-Mobile and Orange in UK merger Flight site hacker 'identified'
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (06/09/2009)
Welcome to this weeks round-up. All articles in the NewsBot Centre are imported from blog and site feeds from the world of security and technology. This weeks top articles are: eBay 'reaches deal to sell Skype' The Conficker worm makes a comeb
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (19/07/2009)
Welcome to this weeks round-up. All articles in the NewsBot Centre are imported from blog and site feeds from the world of security and technology. This weeks top articles are: Facebook Sued for Click Fraud--RootZoo v. Facebook Stopgap Fix fo
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (07/06/2009)
Welcome to this weeks round-up. All articles in the NewsBot Centre are imported from blog and site feeds from the world of security and technology. This weeks top articles are: Bing is live! Microsoft unveils new controller Malware SPAM: 12
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (31/05/2009)
Welcome to this weeks round-up. All articles in the NewsBot Centre are imported from blog and site feeds from the world of security and technology. This weeks top articles are: Malware SPAM: Western Union WesternUnion_TR0002212.zip Microsoft p
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Monday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (13/04/2009)
For the second time since we started this experiment, we have the weekly round-up on a Monday. A very valid reason, I was very tired yesterday from working and other matters. Plus, it was Easter Sunday. I hope you had a wonderful time wherever you ar
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (22/03/2009)
This weeks Sunday NewsBot marks it's first anniversary. We started this venture all the way back in March 2008 and the first article was a Microsoft Security Advisory (950627) article. Let's hope this is the start of many more. All articles in the
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (01/02/2009)
NewsBot Round-Up time again. With news generated and pulled from all over the web by our NewsBot Centre in the last week. Your site is dangerous Google glitch Obama Administration Outlines Cyber Security Strategy Gates predicts four-year down
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Google Chrome – Your Thoughts?
A new browser has appeared on the scene and I'll be testing it out over the next few days and weeks. It goes by the name of Google Chrome. (Click to Enlarge) Hopefully, after some time testing it, I will get a better picture. I'll also be blogg
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 released!
You would have a thought I would have blogged about IE8 Beta 1, but no! I have cleery been too busy to miss that headline! ... Seriously though the Beta 2 version of the new Internet Explorer 8 has been released. Meaning it is well on it's way
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Mozilla Firefox 3 URI Launching and XUL Error Page Vulnerabilities
Short post, but an important one to inform you about. For all the details about the vulnerabilities in FireFox 3 regarding URI launching and XUL, visit our forum here. Apologies for the lack of entries on this blog. We hope to resolve this soon.
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Opera Browser Update 9.22
Following the Mozilla Firefox browser update yesterday, Opera has released an update due to a vulnerability in BitTorrent header parsing which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability description from Secu
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Firefox 2.0.0.5 Update
Last week, a highly critical risk was reported, with proof of concept, involving registering a "firefoxurl://" URI (uniform resource identifier) handler on a computer with both IE and Firefox 2.0 (or later). This was described by Mozillazine as follo
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Fake Internet Explorer 7 Downloads
Going around as spam. I've had about five of them and SunBelt got them too. This is obviously a fake and never came from admin AT microsoft DOT com. (Click to Enlarge) You can see the source code here (pdf format). And the image isn't as you
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Mozilla Firefox Security Update
Mozilla updated both supported versions of Firefox to 2.0.0.3 and 1.5.0.11, respectively, with a security and stability update. See Security Advisory 2007-11. It is strongly recommended by Mozilla that the update be installed as soon as possible.
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