Entries Tagged as 'Browsers'

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Adobe Flash Player Clickjacking Vulnerability

The recently reported clickjacking vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player could also allow a hacker to remotely activate a computer’s microphone and webcam (meaning they could see and hear what you were doing).
The Adobe Security Blog is reporting that a Flash Player patch should be available by the end of October and until it is released, [...]

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Opera Browser Mouse Gestures

Since my recent Firefox issues, I have switched to using the Opera web browser and I must say that there are several features that have really impressed me.
One is what Opera calls Mouse Gestures. By clicking a mouse button and moving the mouse in the prescribed direction at the same time, you can navigate [...]

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Firefox Memory Leak

It may just be me, but is Firefox having some memory leak issues? I have noticed it over the past few weeks and today it has finally forced me to exclusively use my second favorite browser - Opera, which is a super browser in its own right.
When I fire up Firefox, immediately 50Mb gets [...]

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Apple Safari Beta Runs on Windows PCs

Apple is creating the new Safari Web Browser to run on Windows PCs. One can download it directly from Apple’s web site, which I did, with mixed results. I then uninstalled it after hearing about the security holes.

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

New Firefox Vulnerability Reported

There has been a vulnerability found in the Firefox web browser that could allow a phishing web site [define Phishing] to appear authentic.
This but was posted by Michal Zalewski on Full Disclosure, a security mailing list . A phisher could potentially manipulate authentication cookies and that could cause a malicious web site to appear [...]