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Cookie Hijacking Vulnerability In Internet Explorer

By Vygantas | May 27, 2011 | 1 Comment

Cookie Hijacking Vulnerability In Internet Explorer

Facebook can be dangerous.

The Italian security researcher, Rosario Valotta, has discovered a new security vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer, which allows hackers to steal your login details. Fortunately, it’s not as alarming as it sounds.

To obtain private information, the attacker asks its potential victims to drag and drop an object across the screen and that’s what triggers the bug.
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Firefox Gets about:permissions For More Privacy Control

By Armin Seuchter | May 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

Firefox Gets about:permissions For More Privacy Control The nightly builds of Firefox have received a new tool in the form of about:permissions. Typing about:permissions into the address bar welcomes one with a dashboard that lets you configure cookies, geolocation, pop ups, password keeping, and offline storage access on a per site basis.

If passwords have previously been set for a specific site, about:permissions will permit the viewing and removal of these passwords. One can also administer and get rid of cookies that sites have cached on the system or forget a site completely, eradicating it from Firefox’s memory.
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Weekly Browsers Recap + Bonus Links, May 16th

By Vygantas | May 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Firefox 3.5 To Be Killed Off Soon

By Armin Seuchter | May 16, 2011 | 7 Comments

Firefox 3.5 To Be Killed Off Soon Firefox 3.5, currently boasting 12 million users according to Mozilla, will be updated to a newer version next month through an automatic upgrade. Makes sense that Mozilla wants to upgrade its users, for Firefox 3.5 received its last security patch approximately three weeks ago.

Mozilla started offering an upgrade to Firefox 4 to people running Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 last week. According to Christian Legnitto, the Firefox release manager, Mozilla will force 3.6 on 3.5 stragglers not choosing to update to Firefox 4 or 3.6. However, Legnitto later said that his choice of the word “force” was poor, and noted that only Firefox 3.5 users who had left the default automatic updates setting enabled would be moved to Firefox 3.6 automatically.
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Chrome Hack Denied By Google Engineers

By Armin Seuchter | May 15, 2011 | 3 Comments

As reported previously by FavBrowser, Google Chrome’s sandbox has allegedly been hacked. Nevertheless, several security engineers over at Google have now denied this, countering claims that a security company discovered a vulnerability in Chrome that could let attackers hijack Windows PCs running the browser.

The bug that security company Vupen exploited to hack Chrome was in Adobe’s Flash which comes bundled with Chrome, not in Chrome itself, said the engineers. A Google spokesman said that investigation was still ongoing, but the engineers decided to make themselves heard.
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Google’s Chrome Sandbox Hacked

By Vygantas | May 10, 2011 | 12 Comments

Googles Chrome Sandbox Hacked

The end is near.

After countless attempts, the almighty Sandbox has been bypassed by the French security company Vupen, which won the $15,000 cash prize just few months ago in the Pwn2Own contest for successfully hacking Safari web browser.

Although Google was unable to confirm such claim, the buzz is quickly spreading all over the Internet.
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LastPass May Have Been Hacked

By Vygantas | May 10, 2011 | 5 Comments

LastPass May Have Been Hacked LastPass, a popular password manager and form filler may have been hacked.

According to the official blog posts, users are now forced change their master password due to network anomalies that were not yet identified.

In the interview with PC World, LastPass CEO shared his opinion and insights on the possible hack. Furthermore, he thinks that not a lot of data could have been stolen but enough to potentially compromise some of the users.

If you are using LastPass, be sure to check their blog post which is constantly updated.

Weekly Browsers Recap + Bonus Links, May 9th

By Vygantas | May 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Google Chrome Blocks Java

By Vygantas | April 29, 2011 | 20 Comments

Google Chrome Blocks Java Java and security vulnerabilities go together like bread and butter and fortunately for some users, it is now blocked in Google Chrome.