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Are all browsers equally vulnerable?
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| With all this Internet Explorer insecurity
| issues coming to light, a common argument
| is:
|
| âAll browsers are insecure, just
| practice safer browsing by not clicking
| on links in unsolicited mail.â
|
| Sure, thatâs a important part of being safe
| on the net, but itâs only half of the
| picture. Of course all browsers will have
| security holes at particular points in time,
| no software is perfect.
|
| However, what we should be looking at is a
| vendorâs response to security
| vulnerabilities. Itâs how quickly a vendor
| can patch a hole and distribute the fix
| which is most important. (Of course,
| security by design and underlying operating
| system are also important factors.)
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http://blog.christophersmart.com/2010/01/25/are-all-browsers-equally-vulnerable/
Microsoft's IE has still more flaws
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1588436/microsoft-ie-flaws
Time to dump Internet Explorer for something safer?
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| Another day, another IE flaw! Just when you
| thought it was safe to go back in the
| Internet Explorer water (mainly as Microsoft
| told you it was after releasing yet another
| patch to fix yet another vulnerability)
| comes the news that actually, would you
| believe it, but Internet Explorer still
| isn't safe.
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http://www.daniweb.com/news/story255222.html
Internet Explorer Losing its Luster in Europe?
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| According to data released by the AT
| Internet Institute, Microsoft's Internet
| Explorer has fallen to under 60% of visits
| in Europe. The firm suggests that with
| widely publicized news of a major security
| flaw and moves being made by competing
| browsers, IE's fall may not be reversed in
| the very near future.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/01/25/internet-explorer-losing-its-luster-in-europe
Recent:
Expert finds vulnerabilities in Microsoft browser
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| A security research firm said it discovered
| another set of vulnerabilities in Internet
| Explorer, a day after Microsoft Corp patched
| the Web browser following a high-profile
| cyber attack on Google in China.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60L5O820100122?type=technologyNews
IE is so secure we just had to build an OS out of it.
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| Microsofts new Gazelle concept is the
| greatest thing to hit Linux or the computer
| industry as a whole ever. According to
| Microsoft, Gazelle is a secure web browser
| constructed as a multi-principal OS. I never
| thought I would live to see the day that
| Microsoft announces its own suicide.
|
| I also never imagined that you could become
| a top executive and yet be so absolutely
| clueless as to sell an idea to the board
| that will mark their own demise and yet be
| so blinded by greed that the obvious has
| become a non issuing factor.
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http://www.buntfu.com/news,page,79,topic_id,content_pages
Firefox, Opera downloads surge after IE security scare
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| Internet browsers Firefox and Opera have
| experienced a massive surge in downloads
| since the security flaw in Microsoft
| Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) was exposed.
|
| Firefox owner Mozilla claims it has
| experienced more than 300,000 extra
| downloads over a four-day period in Germany
| that started last Friday. Opera downloads in
| Germany amounted to over 18,000 in a day
| over last weekend.
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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/enterprise/firefox-opera-downloads-surge-after-ie-security-scare-20100121-mnez.html
Widespread Attacks Exploit Newly Patched IE Bug
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| The first widespread attack to leverage a
| recently patched flaw in Microsoft's Internet
| Explorer browser has surfaced.
|
| Starting late Wednesday, researchers at
| antivirus vendor Symantec's Security Response
| group began spotting dozens of Web sites that
| contain the Internet Explorer attack, which
| works reliably on the IE 6 browser, running
| on Windows XP. The attack installs a Trojan
| horse program that is able to bypass some
| security products and then give hackers
| access to the system, said Joshua Talbot, a
| security intelligence manager with Symantec.
|
| Once it has infected a PC, the Trojan sends a
| notification e-mail to the attackers, using a
| U.S.-based, free e-mail service that Symantec
| declined to name.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/187413/widespread_attacks_exploit_newly_patched_ie_bug.html?tk=rss_news
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