Web browsers became integrated into many daily job functions years ago. We use them to help streamline business processes, access organisational intranets, and reach across the world within seconds for information.
Browsers are responsible for displaying tons of website data, everything from application data, to links and images, to creative advertisements that rely on Java and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax). Attackers realise that enterprises rely heavily on browsers, which is why they seek to compromise legitimate websites to silently install malicious code into enterprises via the Web browser. More>>
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Labels: Online Advertising, web security

Web security researcher Dan Kaminsky has discovered a significant threat to DNS, that would allow malicious people to impersonate almost any website on the Internet. Software companies across the industry are collaborating simultaneously to release fixes for all affected name servers. The DNS system translates names you can remember (such as www.webguild.org) to numbers the Internet can route to (67.111.192.82). To find out if the DNS server you use is vulnerable, click below.
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Microsoft announced the launch an all-in-one security and productivity software subscription service for consumers called Equipt that combines Microsoft Office and Windows Live OneCare. There service will be sold through Circuit City starting in this month. The service will cost $69.99 for a one-year subscription. Each subscription will be good for three home computers.
According to Ina Fried of CNET, the idea behind the subscription service is to convert more new PC buyers into Office buyers. It plays on the fact that although most people don’t buy Office at the same More»

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This diagram shows the Web browser Insecurity Iceberg, which represents the number of Internet users at risk because they don’t use the latest most secure Web browsers and plug-ins to surf the Web. This paper has quantified the visible portion of the Insecurity Iceberg (above the waterline) using passive evaluation techniques - which amounted to more than 600 million users at risk not running the latest most secureWeb browser version in June 2008. More >>
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Hackers in Russian are cracking Google’s Gmail captchas for $3 a day according to a document discovered by Websense. Breaking the captchas allows hackers to access Gmail and flood the email service with spam mails containing links to malware, Viagra propositions, male enhancements solutions, high school diplomas and mortgage refinance. More>>
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Labels: web security