The first webpage was served off a NeXTcube at CERN, Switzerland, developed by Tim Berners-Lee. He also wrote the first web browser, confusingly named WorldWideWeb - the world of web browsers has come a long way since then, more or less turning into a platform of their own. This puts increasing pressure on web browsers to be really really good pieces of software, and as such, ZDnet has a 7-page comparison of the world’s major web browsers, comparing Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.
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Microsoft's security team is warning Windows users to stop using Apple's Safari browser, reports the Channel Register. Users should lay off Safari until security researchers can investigate a hole that allows malware to be posted to the Windows desktop without the user's permission. A Web site set up to exploit this hole can download and execute malicious files with no prompting, Microsoft says. Read more
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Source: Network World
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benjymouse writes “The Register has picked up on a recent Microsoft security bulletin which urges Windows users to “restrict use of Safari as a web browser until an appropriate update is available from Microsoft and/or Apple”. This controversy comes after Apple has officially refused to promise to do anything about the carpet bombing vulnerability in the Safari browser. Essentially, Apple does not see unsolicited downloads of hundreds or even thousands of executable files to users’ desktops as being a security problem.” Now while downloading a hundred files to your desktop won’t automatically execute them, Microsoft’s position is that a secondary attack could execute them for you.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines
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benjymouse writes “The Register has picked up on a recent Microsoft security bulletin which urges Windows users to “restrict use of Safari as a web browser until an appropriate update is available from Microsoft and/or Apple”. This controversy comes after Apple has officially refused to promise to do anything about the carpet bombing vulnerability in the Safari browser. Essentially, Apple does not see unsolicited downloads of hundreds or even thousands of executable files to users’ desktops as being a security problem.” Now while downloading a hundred files to your desktop won’t automatically execute them, Microsoft’s position is that a secondary attack could execute them for you.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines
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Mozilla, makers of Firefox, a popular alternative to Safari on many users’ machines, will very shortly release Firefox 3–the product is currently at release candidate stage, which typically means a final release is imminent. The latest version of Mozilla’s browser includes a number of new features to make browsing faster, easier, and perhaps even more fun. I covered some of those features, along with other changes, in a recent first look at Firefox 3 based on the fourth beta release of the browser.
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Source: Network World
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In a warning issued to customers late Friday, Microsoft urged Safari users to change the browser’s default download location.
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Source: Tech Target
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Google announced this week that their Google Earth application can now be used from the browser, instead of having to download and install the desktop application. “Google also launched an JavaScript API that lets you interact with the globe, draw markers, add layers or integrate with Google Maps. ‘The Google Earth Plug-in and its APIs let you embed the full power of Google Earth and its 3D rendering capabilities into your web pages.’ Google LatLong blog announced that each Google Maps mashup can take advantage of the new 3D view by adding a single line of code. ‘Our goal is to open up the entire core of Google Earth to developers in the hopes that you’ll build the next great geo-based 3D application, and change how we view the world.’”Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the Online Media Technologies NCTSoft NCTAudioInformation2 ActiveX control in NCTAudioInformation2.dll allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
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Source: National Vulnerability Database
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The Creative Labs AutoUpdate Engine ActiveX control contains a stack buffer overflow, which can allow a remote,
unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. The risk is MEDIUM. By convincing a user to view a
specially crafted HTML document (e.g., a web page or an HTML email message or attachment), an attacker may be able to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.
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Source: CIAC
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Sure, Firefox 3 is the bee’s knees (and has been since Beta 3), but will it go down history books? It will if it sets a world record! Mozilla’s taking the quick and easy path to everlasting glory (until someone beats it anyway) by planning to set the world record for most software downloads in 24 hours on Firefox 3’s official launch day. The exact day isn’t posted, but it’ll be sometime next month. I hope they’ve got some Stark Industries-powered servers running this show. Check out the super cute badge Firefox 3 download badge:
[Spread Firefox via /.]
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Source: Gizmodo
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