Browsers security

In Windows Vista and 7 the internet explorer runs in Protected Mode as it helps protect from websites that automatically try to install unwanted programs or try to save useless files on your PC. It’s a security feature of Internet explorer, which helps protect a user’s computer from attack with greatly restricted human rights....
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Firesheep hacking was discovered few weeks back when your Firefox browser attacked through a plugin firesheep especially when you surf on public networks.  Firesheep is an extension that demonstrates HTTP session hijacking attacks. This is also called session hijacking. Firesheep hacking does not go through proper hacking of any system rather it simply look for...
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Most of Firefox’s advantages are MSIE’s disadvantages, and vice-versa. This commodity will attending at some of the advantages and disadvantages of Firefox in affiliation to MSIE. Advantages Security Security is generally cited as the primary acumen for users switching from MSIE to Firefox. Aegis is of absolute accent for software that interacts with alien computers, in an...
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It’s important for a web developer to keep in mind the compatibility issue of a website on different browsers and platforms. For instance, you design and develop a website using Mozilla Firefox on Windows Vista. It displays perfectly fine and the scripts work as desired. And then you found a Macbook on the street...
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IE 8.00 the latest version from Microsoft has been launched with new security features.The latest intenet explorer 8.00 development adhere strict w3c standards of security. The issues like backward compatibility privacy etc has been dealt in the development by a smart way. By inserting a specially created “meta” element into the webpage, IE8 triggers the old...
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Internet explorer is more open to vulnerabilities and the hackers being busy in finding loopholes to attack the computers. It is because IE is the most popular browser and vastly used. Below are some tips through which one can save his or her machine from hackers. Disabling  install on demand Procedure: Close all applications running on computer. Go...
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Internet explorer lost its considerable market in the recent past years where Firefox, safari, Google Chrome and few others gave a tough time to IE. Microsoft realised this thing and through comprehensive research manage to inroduce Internet Explorer 8 with new add ons security features.  It will be released any time in this month. According...
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Mozilla has recently released an update which fixes several security issues for Firefox. The security release fixes the issues relate to XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect and Crashes. In the new version the above fix is included. Moreover a bug that caused items in the File menu to be ineffective after using Print has...
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Microsoft has issued a third Internet Explorer 8 beta that includes a list of compatible websites for users less than “web savvy”. The IE 8 Release Candidate is the third pre-release version of Microsoft’s browser but the first to include a list of web sites that Microsoft says actually work with its browser. The Compatibility View...
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Private browsers are aim to enhance the user experience of browsing. It has the following common features. The URL’s visited would not be recorded in the browsers history. Cookies would not be saved during the private sessions and all cookies would be treated as session cookies. All other evidences would be cleaned from...
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Grail applets can access certain objects in the Grail application through special attributes of the master argument passed to every applet instance. The most important objects are the App, the Browser, the Viewer, and the Context. The App object represents the entire Grail application, and contains information shared bewteen all browsers. ...
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clickjacking lets hackers and scammers hide malicious stuff under the cover of the content on a legitimate site. You know what happens when a car-jacker takes a car? Well, click-jacking is like that, except that click is the car. Clickjacking trace back to 1990 and now it is being used again by hackers. Mostly the...
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