December 20, 2011 - Gary Korhonen joins Chet for this week's podcast discussing the automatic upgrade of Internet Explorer, Android Market malware, Carrier IQ and an infection that shut down a hospital in Georgia. Read more
December 15, 2011 - It turns out that the Google sponsored study that painted Firefox in a poor light might have been influenced by the sponsor. Read more
December 15, 2011 - Microsoft is beginning to automatically upgrade users to Internet Explorer 9 as part of their effort to eradicate versions of their old and vulnerable browsers. Read more
December 13, 2011 - A new study has tossed the big browsers into the security mosh pit and decreed that Google's Chrome comes in first, ahead of Internet Explorer and Firefox. But when it comes to the top three, is security more about your (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2011 - Thanksgiving is coming up this weekend in the US. It's a holiday of gluttony and family time, and, according to The Atlantic, a chance to update your family's internet browsers. Read more
November 3, 2011 - It was bound to happen. Some years back, that upstart Firefox tempted us with tabs, add-ons and fun themes. And it seems like only yesterday that Chrome’s speed (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - Microsoft has just released an update to security advisory 2607712 permanently moving all five of DigiNotar's root certificates to the (continue reading...) Read more
August 8, 2011 - Not all browser nets can catch the same phish. One Friday evening, just before I wanted to go home, I received an interesting email. It contained sentences like “ We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your PayPal account (continue reading...) Read more
August 3, 2011 - Earlier today I got a call from a journalist at a media organisation (I won't say which one to spare their blushes..) with a plaintive cry: "I think we might have been hoaxed. Could you take a look and see what (continue reading...) Read more
July 14, 2011 - My Russian colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov report that recently a cybercrime group called “Ready to Ride” has attracted their attention, by distributing malware of the Win32/Cycbot family. This group started in the fall last year, judging from the (continue reading...) Read more
June 14, 2011 - Being the second Tuesday of the month, once again it is Patch Tuesday. This is the second (continue reading...) Read more
May 28, 2011 - You may have seen articles recently that highlight a social engineering technique called “cookiejacking” and how a particular instance may currently affect Internet Explorer. It’s important to note that we have not seen widespread attacks related to this (continue reading...) Read more
May 23, 2011 - Whenever an average consumer is confronted with the idea of "opting in," typically they don't bother. They are not aware they have a choice, it's too (continue reading...) Read more
May 19, 2011 - Earlier this week Microsoft posted a blog entry showing statistics from their SmartScreen technology built into Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 8 and 9. Their (continue reading...) Read more
May 16, 2011 - George Osborne MP, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, has said that British government computers are on the receiving end of over 20,000 malicious email attacks every month. In a keynote address at (continue reading...) Read more
March 11, 2011 - While the Internet is an amazing resource in terms of the information you can find and things you can do today, it’s important to also be smart about how you browse. A browser can be a great tool in helping (continue reading...) Read more
March 11, 2011 - While the Internet is an amazing resource in terms of the information you can find and things you can do today, it’s important to also be smart about how you browse. A browser can be a great tool in helping (continue reading...) Read more
March 11, 2011 - While the Internet is an amazing resource in terms of the information you can find and things you can do today, it’s important to also be smart about how you browse. A browser can be a great tool in helping (continue reading...) Read more
March 10, 2011 - As sure as night follows day, malware follows the meme. And latest meme, apparently, is all Charlie Sheen, all the time. I don’t watch much TV (read: none), and don’t read many celebrity gossip blogs (read: none), but even (continue reading...) Read more
March 7, 2011 - Microsoft has launched another salvo in its campaign to hammer the final nail into the coffin of an outdated, insecure product: Internet Explorer 6. The problem with Internet Explorer 6 is that Microsoft no longer supports it, and the creaky old (continue reading...) Read more