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Jul 10

Apple’s Safari could possibly leak your personal information



A feature in Apple’s Safari browser designed to make it easier to fill out forms could by abused by hackers to harvest personal information, according to a security researcher.

…IDG News Service - A feature in Apple’s Safari browser designed to make it easier to fill out forms could be abused by hackers to harvest personal information, according to a security researcher. Safari’s AutoFill feature is enabled by default and will fill in information such as first and last name, work place, city, state, and e-mail address when it recognizes a form, wrote Jeremiah Grossman, CTO for WhiteHat Security, on his blog. The information comes from Safari’s local operating system address book. The feature dumps the data into the form even if a person has entered no data on a particular Web site, which opens up an opportunity for a hacker. “All a malicious website would have to do to surreptitiously extract Address Book card data from Safari is dynamically create form text fields with the aforementioned names, probably invisibly, and then simulate A-Z keystroke events using JavaScript,” Grossman wrote. “When data is populated, that is AutoFill’ed, it can be accessed and sent to the attacker.’…

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Jul 10

Certified Lies: Big Brother In Your Browser

You probably feel safe when you see the padlock on your browser window indicating secure communication with your bank or e-mail account. What if instead of worrying about man-in-the-middle attacks, it became government-spy-in-the middle eavesdropping?

…a fresh installation of Windows 7 will list 15 CAs in the operating system’s Trusted Root Store. Sadly, however, this interface is terribly misleading as it doesn’t reveal the fact that Microsoft has opted to trust 264 different CAs. This means any web browser that depends upon Microsoft’s Trusted Root Store (such as Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari for Windows) ultimately trusts 264 different CAs to issue certificates without warning. Firefox is the only major browser to maintain its own database of trusted CAs. Each of the 264 root CAs trusted by Microsoft, the 166 root CAs trusted by Apple, and the 144 root CAs trusted by Firefox are capable of issuing certificates for any website, in any country or top level domain. You don’t think the government will use their own CA which could be tracked back to them if discovered, do you?
To be fair, however, all encrypted streams that travel over the Internet are susceptible to government spying, not just those that use Microsoft technology.
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Jul 10

IE 8 Growing Three Times Faster than Chrome

After months of consistent declines in overall market share, Internet Explorer had an overall gain in May, but only in the United States. The latest browser market share trends show that Internet Explorer continues to reverse its losses and make gains in market share–this time globally. More specifically, Internet Explorer 8 is leading all…

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Jun 10

Google steals security page from Mozilla’s Firefox

Taking a page from Mozilla’s security playbook, Google plans to block outdated plug-ins from launching in its Chrome browser.

…Computerworld - Google will take a page from Mozilla’s security playbook and block outdated plug-ins from launching in its Chrome browser, part of a new effort to keep users safer, the company said Monday.

In a post to the Chromium blog, a trio of Google security engineers announced that Chrome would refuse to run plug-ins if they were found to be out of date, and thus, potentially vulnerable to exploitation of known bugs.

Chromium is the name of the open-source development project that feeds into the Chrome browser.

Google did not spell out when the blocking of outdated plug-ins would be added to Chrome, saying only that it would happen in the “medium-term.” Nor did the Google engineers specify which plug-ins would be blocked. Chrome will assist users in updating old plug-ins, they said.

Chrome will also display a warning when a site calls on an infrequently-used plug-in, said Chris Evans, Julien Tinnes and Michal Zalewski of Google’s security team. “Some plug-ins are widely installed but typically not…

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Jun 10

Mozilla likes HTML5 over Flash

The developer of the Firefox browser joins the likes of Apple and Microsoft in the argument over the next stage in web standards. Is HTML5 the way of the future?

…Mozilla has joined the chorus in declaring HTML5 as the way of the future.

While Mozilla isn’t going quite as far as Apple - Flash is still supported in Firefox - vice president of production Jay Sullivan told The Register the Adobe product will never be bundled with the browser.
It’s not specifically Adobe that’s the problem - it’s that web standards, including HTML5 are where the industry is going. Anyone can install apps or scripts that enhance their browsing experience - that’s part of being an open source browser. And, if someone already has Flash installed, Firefox may eventually auto-update the application (it doesn’t right now, and Google’s Chrome does - it’s also bundled with Flash).

Just this week, in fact, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.4, which offers crash protection for the browser if Flash (or QuickTime or Silverlight) crashes on a computer running Windows or Linux. Support for Mac or other operating systems will be included in a future release, Mozilla said.
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Jun 10

Your Browser in Five Years

The next big computing platform won’t be Apple’s Mac OS, Google’s Android, or Microsoft’s Windows. It’s already here–and it’s the Web.

…What will your Web browser look like in 2015? Five years doesn’t always bring dramatic change to some technologies–today’s desktop PC, for instance, isn’t that different from its 2005 predecessor–but browsers are undergoing major changes that will alter our day-to-day computing lives.
Not only will Web browsers become commonplace in cars, but they’ll also incorporate voice recognition, text-to-speech, and touchless gesture controls for applications where keypads, touchpads, and even touchscreens can be either inconvenient (smartphones) or downright dangerous (when driving). Browsers will stream Internet radio to our cars, and perhaps even adopt a 3D-style interface–only without the clunky glasses.
“You’re going to see tremendous innovation in the browser space in the coming years,” says Linus Upson, Google’s vice president of engineering. “We really want the Web as a platform to get to the point where you can do anything on the Web that you can do on Windows, the Mac, or the iPhone.”
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Jun 10

Apple’s Safari 5 takes speed prize on Mac, Windows

Apple’s new Safari 5 browser is the fastest browser on both Windows and Mac OS X, JavaScript benchmark tests show.

…faster than Opera 10.53, and rendered JavaScript about 2.5 times faster than Firefox 3.6.4.

Microsoft’s historically sluggish Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) took 12 times longer to run the SunSpider benchmarks than Safari 5.

Apple’s claim that Safari is “the world’s fastest web browser” may be true today, but previous claims haven’t stood up to testing. Opera, for example, grabbed the top spot in February, surging past Chrome and Safari, the former No. 1 and No. 2 browsers on Windows, and didn’t relinquish it until this month.

The rankings are open to debate. JavaScript performance results can vary significantly, depending on the hardware used to test and the benchmark suite used. Several other technology sites and blogs, for example, have said that their benchmarks show Safari 5 lagging behind Chrome on Windows. Some have gone as far as to call Apple’s speed claim “a flat out lie.”

Although Safari may own the speed prize — by Computerworld’s testing — it not the world’s most popular browser. According to…

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Jun 10

Windows update - No Wonder Firefox On Windows Gets Slower

YET ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID WINDOWS - “MYSTERIOUS UPDATES”.

…had been mysteriously added to their browser upon restarting the application after the Windows Update installation.
The extension is reported to have come from a Windows Update for Microsoft Search Enhancement Pack and was offered to computers with the Windows Live Toolbar, MSN Toolbar, or Bing Bar installed. The update was automatically flagged for installation during the update process as it was labeled Important rather than Optional.

The issue lies in the fact that there is no information currently documented by Microsoft as to what the extension actually does. The knowledgebase article associate with the update, KB982217, only states that the toolbars involved…

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Jun 10

Safari 5 Improved The Way You Surf The Web

Apple jumped into the browser war with recently released safari 5 including new and robust features that improve the way you surf the web.

…faster than Chrome 5.0 and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6 when it comes to running JavaScript.The new browser version will handle HTML5 in a better way. For example, full-screen view and closed captions for will now be supported for HTML5 video.Safari 5 includes support for location services and whenever you visit a Geo-location website, Safari will ask for a confirmation before sharing your position (just like in Chrome).The most hyped new feature in Safari 5 is Safari Reader. This feature allows users to exclude online ads from any webpage and obtain a simplified view for easier reading. Certainly this will speed up page loading times and be a convenience to users.You can test all these features yourself because the browser is up for public download. Get Safari 5 by clicking here.BrowsersIf you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader. You May be Interested In More Interesting Free ResourcesA Showroom Of Nice…

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Jun 10

Safari 5 adds Safari Reader, extensions, more

Apple on Monday released Safari 5, the latest update to its popular Web browser for Mac and Windows. The new version adds several features, including Safari Reader and a new extensions capability.

…Safari 5 adds a new Safari Reader feature that presents Web pages in a streamlined interface, support for developer-created extensions, new HTML5 capabilities, and performance increases.
The new Safari Reader feature seems akin to Web-based services like Readability, giving you the option of viewing a Web page in a slimmed-down, scrollable view that eliminates many of the distracting elements. Safari 5 can detect both single and multipage articles and allows you to toggle the Reader mode to display the article, print it, or share it via e-mail.
Apple also added a few other user-facing features, such as the ability to open links in a new tab instead of a new window, a smarter address field that can remember the content of the page as well as the URL, and the option of using…

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