Once upon a time Microsoft held a virtual monopoly of the browser market with Internet Explorer. It was a PC world and being the default browser pre-installed on Windows PCs guaranteed that almost everyone with a PC used it. That […]
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How secure is your Internet browser? Not very secure apparently. It took ethical hackers at Pwn2Own less than a day to prove it. Researchers engage in the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. There are cash
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Microsoft announced that it plans to phase out its Internet Explorer Web browser beginning with Windows 10. The news was delivered by Microsoft’s marketing chief Chris Capossela at the Microsoft Convergence event, where he also announced the proposed replacement of
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A hacker recently posted a leaked copy of the current release of North Korea’s state-developed RedStar OS, along with the state-developed Naenara browser. Robert “RSnake” Hansen of Whitehat Security dug in to check it out, and discovered some weird behavior
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While the entire world was focused on the Apple media event today, and the unveiling of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch, it also happened to be the second Tuesday of the month, which makes it
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Browsers have made great strides when it comes to being secure by default. Most apply updates automatically by default, and contain various features designed to detect phishing scams, and avoid insecure websites. Privacy is another matter entirely, though. To understand
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Microsoft issued six new security bulletins for the July 2014 Patch Tuesday. One of them is a Critical update for Internet Explorer that fixes 24 separate vulnerabilities. For those keeping score, that makes 83 flaws fixed in Microsoft’s Web browser
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OneNote is the crown jewel of Microsoft Office. It doesn’t get as much attention as the core four (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), but it has quietly become one of the most widely-used tools from the Office suite. That is
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It is only one of seven security bulletins issued by Microsoft for the June 2014 Patch Tuesday, but MS14-035 is by far the most urgent and critical of the bunch. This one update fixes 59 separate vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.
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The holiday season is officially underway. Your good cheer could quickly turn sour, though, if you don’t secure your browser before shopping online. Research from Qualysfound that almost 40 percent of all browsers have critical vulnerabilities that could enable cyber criminals
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