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Following the discovery that Google and other online advertising companies are bypassing Safari’s default “no tracking” settings with specific code inserted …

Future versions of Google’s Chrome browser will no longer use online revocation checks to verify whether the HTTPS site the user wants to visit possesses a valid …

A little over a year after the implementation of a Flash Player sandbox into Google Chrome, Adobe has announced the release of a public beta of its new Flash Player sandbox …

Fake “browser update” pages are currently being used to deliver malware and redirect users to survey pages, warns GFI. Their malware researchers have recently …

Pwn2Own, one of the most anticipated hacking contests that takes place each year at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, is set to unfold under …

Mozilla released Firefox 9 that fixes several security and stability issues. Crash when plugin removes itself on Mac OS X FireBreath developer Richard Bateman reported a crash …

Microsoft announced that in 2012 Internet Explorer will be updated “silently” to its newest possible version. This new silent update will eliminate the pop-up …

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer does a better job protecting systems from attackers who already have gained some degree of access than Mozilla’s Firefox, and …

Before the survey scams, there were rogue web browsers. They were very popular in 2006 and 2007, when old-school ad vendors were at their peak. The majority of such browsers …

Mozilla is planning to implement silent background updates in the upcoming version of Firefox 10, which could be very bad news on the security front, according to Philip …

Mozilla released Firefox 8.0 that fixes several security and stability issues. Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default, as if add-on management …

An increase in browser-based bloat and malware, and growing concern over online tracking technology, will top the technology trends in 2012, according to SlimWare Utilities. …