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We use web browsers, like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, or Opera everyday, and they are literally our window to the web.

All security vulnerabilities affecting web browsers have tremendous implications for both home users and big corporations. Virus, worms, spyware, cross site scripting (XSS) and other attacks can steal your information, your money, or your identity.

Identity theft, money and data loss are in the news every day, and there is no hope of it getting better any time soon.

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Microsoft has been hyping the recent gains in market share Internet Explorer has enjoyed in recapturing some of its eroding market share, but the latest figures suggest that it could be slipping again.

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Source: internetnews.com: Top News

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Microsoft has been hyping the recent gains in market share Internet Explorer has enjoyed in recapturing some of its eroding market share, but the latest figures suggest that it could be slipping again.

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Source: InternetNews

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Google’s Chrome browser is now two years old, and the youngster — and its proud parent — are celebrating its steady rise in popularity. According to Net Applications, Chrome had 7.5 percent of the browser market in August — putting it in third place behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox, and above Apple’s Safari.
That market share is a slight rise from the 7.2 percent market share the browser had in July, while IE dropped 0.3 percent from last month and Firefox stayed even. In May, the search giant said Chrome had 70 million users worldwide.
Chrome 6
To celebrate, Google is releasing Chrome version 6, which product manager Brian Rakowski described on the company blog as “even faster and more streamlined” than the previous version. Rakowski cited several changes in the new browser, including a “minimalist user interface,” the combination of two menus into one, an adjustment of the color scheme, and other modifications.
Looking into the future, he said Google is planning to make the browser faster, to improve graphics performance through hardware acceleration, and to launch later this year The Chrome Web Store, with apps designed for use in standards-based browsers.
Google has indicated that Chrome was designed to be more of a platform for applications than other browsers. Both the browser and Google’s in-progress Chrome operating system are derived from the Chromium open-source project.
Jeffrey Hammond, an analyst with industry research firm Forrester, said the relationship between the Chrome browser and the Chromium project “was a bit of a mystery to me,” although he suspects the core rendering engine was used in both.
HTML5 Implementation
Google is still trying to sort out the Chrome OS positioning against its open-source Android portable operating system, suggested Al Hilwa, program director for application development at industry research firm IDC. Android has enjoyed a huge…

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Source: CIO Today

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Jake writes with this excerpt from Ars: “Microsoft is warning about a new piece of malware, Rogue:MSIL/Zeven, that auto-detects a user’s browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. The fake warning pages are very similar to the real thing; you have to look closely to realize they aren’t the real thing. The ploy is a basic social engineering scheme, but in this case the malware authors are relying on the user’s trust in their browser, a tactic that hasn’t been seen before. Beyond the warning pages, the actual malware looks like the real deal: it allows you to scan files, tells you when you’re behind on your updates, and enables you to change your security and privacy settings. Performing a scan results in the product finding malicious files, but of course it cannot delete them unless you update, which requires paying for the full version. Attempting to buy the product will open an HTML window that provides a useless ‘Safe Browsing Mode’ with high-strength encryption. To top it all off, the rogue antivirus webpage looks awfully similar to the Microsoft Security Essentials webpage; even the awards received by MSE and a link to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center have been copied.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines

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Back in the day, it was news when Google used its massive home page distribution to push its new Chrome browser. Google putting ads on its home page?! A big deal, even if they were for Google’s own products. It spoke to an ongoing creep inside the company of…

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Source: John Battelle’s Searchblog

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Trend Micro Internet Security Pro ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Source: Security Focus

The Hackers’ Nightmare is here!

Microsoft is warning about a new piece of malware, Rogue:MSIL/Zeven, that auto-detects a user’s browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. The fake warning pages are very similar to the real thing; you have to look closely to realize they aren’t the real thing. The ploy is a basic social engineering scheme, but in this case the malware authors are relying on the user’s trust in their browser, a tactic that hasn’t been seen before. Beyond the warning pages, the actual malware looks like the real deal: it allows you to scan files, tells you when you’re behind on your updates, and enables you to change your security and privacy settings. Performing a scan results in the product finding malicious files, but of course it cannot delete them unless you update, which requires paying for the full version. Attempting to buy the product will open an HTML window that provides a useless “Safe Browsing Mode” with high-strength encryption. To top it all off, the rogue antivirus webpage looks awfully similar to the Microsoft Security Essentials webpage; even the awards received by MSE and a link to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center have been copied.
While the malware is a pretty good attempt, it’s not perfect. The goal is to get the user to download and install something, shelling out some cash in the process, which neither of the three browser vendors would ever recommend. The Firefox warning page, meanwhile, has an obvious typo (”Get me our of here”). In addition, it’s suspicious that a webpage is going out of its way to tell you it is protecting your purchase. It’s also not hard to check that the supposedly detected files do not actually exist on the user’s computer. All of these missteps should raise red flags immediately; having said that, we’ve still not before seen this level of detail and effort from the bad guys.
Malware progress
Just two years ago, a fake malware warning page and a fake antivirus looked like this:
Now, we’ve got a much more believable malware warning that changes based on which of the top three browsers you are using (compare Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome):
We have a full-blown webpage that tries to sell a fake antimalware product and rips off Microsoft’s own offering:
Finally, here’s the fake antimalware product which uses various Microsoft security icons:
Malware authors have come a long way recently and this latest effort is worrying because even informed users can easily be tricked by something like this. Thankfully, there’s a universal rule that still applies: don’t download something simply because a webpage says you should.
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Source: Ars Technica

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This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Mozilla Firefox.

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Source: Security Team

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[ MDVSA-2010:169 ] mozilla-thunderbird

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Source: Security Focus

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