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I groan when I hear repeated security reports of "bugs in xxx browser allowing URL spoofing", etc, etc. Most of the reports are real, live vulnerabilities that can endanger you and threaten your security as an internet user. However, I think a lot of this is misunderstood by some. You see, most of...
Read More | Feb 28th, 2007
Here in the UK it is pantomime season. A peculiar form of traditional slapstick stage play that is performed during the Christmas season. In essence favourite tales such as Peter Pan, Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin are retold with the lead boy played by a girl and an ugly woman played...
Read More | Dec 27th, 2006
A browser with vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and cross-site scripting attacks. An urgent automatic update to patch eight such vulnerabilities, five of which are rated as critical and the complete set as ‘highly critical’ by security exploits tracker Secunia. And...
Read More | Dec 21st, 2006 | Comments: 13 | Last Comment: Jan 22nd, 2007
I don't know about you, but I find this just ridiculous: The technology to browse the web has been around for some time now. And I think there was a reason why game console designers didn't have web browsing as a feature for quite some time. Although it sounds nice, here are my thoughts against...
Read More | Dec 20th, 2006
Since writing here about the release of a new 'privacy preserving web browser', I have now had a chance to test Browzar for myself and can make the following additional comments: I do not buy the 'Browzar is adware' comments that have been doing the rounds of the blogosphere, at least it's not...
Read More | Sep 10th, 2006
The line ‘free crypto browser extension for Firefox’ contains six of my favorite words within its seven-word construction, which is not bad going. In case you were wondering, for is the word that doesn’t float my boat, although others such as complexity, ‘key management’ and PGP which...
Read More | Sep 8th, 2006
Once upon a time, back in the late 1990s, Ajaz Ahmed was the founder of an ISP that literally changed the shape of the UK Internet. The reason as to why is hinted at in the name: Freeserve. Ahmed had the vision to understand that free access to the Internet could not only be a success, but a hugely...
Read More | Sep 2nd, 2006 | Comments: 8 | Last Comment: Sep 10th, 2006
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html "Firefox 2 Beta 2 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 2 Beta 2 is intended for Web application developers and our testing community....
Read More | Aug 31st, 2006
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