A critical security flaw that has been affecting Adobe's Flash Player application now has an update from the software company towards remedying the problem. Actually the flaw had been enabling hackers to exploit it so users could be deceived into taking down malware while browsing in IE (Internet Explorer) that too was getting impacted. Redorbit.com published this on May 6, 2012.
You'd hope that as the latest iteration in a long line of browsers Microsoft's latest, IE9, would be its best yet. Naturally, it is, but that would actually be to underestimate how much of a leap forward IE9 really is in terms of technology. In our other articles we've examined how much of a difference IE9 can make to the end user, but what you might not realise is how much of a difference it can make to web developers too.
The browser wars are back on in earnest. For the second time in three months, Internet Explorer made large gains, picking up almost 1 point of market share. Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all lost out, as Internet Explorer 9 won over new users.
After the recently concluded pwn2own an pwnium contest, the security of your web browser is once again a hot topic. Vulnerabilities within browsers are certainly not new, however, it is the mitigation techniques - the methods used by folks like Microsoft, Mozilla and Google to defeat exploit writers - that has researchers more interested.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser has fallen.
A team of French researchers exploited two different IE zero-day flaws to break into a fully patched Windows 7 SP1 machine and take an almost unassailable lead in this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own competition.
A Google researcher has resurrected an attack that allows website operators to steal the browsing history of visitors almost a year after all major browser makers introduced changes to close the gaping privacy hole.
