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[http://www.pcmag.com] Reviews News & Opinions Downloads Business Daily Deals Login Register Subscribe Top Categories See all » Trending Tags See all » Follow More Blogs AppScout 'Lord of the Rings: Legends' Begins Its Quest on iOS, Android Forward Thinking Microsoft at Build: 10 Spoken and Unspoken Messages Are You Using The Most Secure Web Browser? Aug 02, 2014 9:00 AM EST Comments By Abigail Wang You might think you're using the best Internet browser out there, but are you really? Read More » Categories: Web Browsers Tags: web browser, cybersecurity, attack surface How to Protect Your Website Passwords in Chrome Aug 07, 2013 12:57 PM EST Comments By Neil J. Rubenking If you leave a room without locking your Windows account, your siblings or friends can read all your passwords saved in Chrome. Firefox and IE aren't much better. Here's how to protect those passwords. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers Tags: Chrome, passwords, Internet Explorer, password management Fake YouTube Page Targets Chrome Users May 19, 2013 3:30 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Researchers uncovered a fake YouTube page which targets only Google Chrome users. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers, Malware Tags: Chrome, extension, YouTube Adobe Promises Fix for Zero-Day Bug in Reader This Week Feb 17, 2013 2:32 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Adobe promised a fix for the critical zero-day vulnerability currently being exploited in the wild will be available sometime this week. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers, Malware Tags: PDF, Acrobat, Adobe Reader, sandbox, Zero-Day Browsers Beat Security Software in Phishing Protection Test Jan 30, 2013 8:00 AM EST Comments By Neil J. Rubenking Antivirus tools can detect malicious programs, but phishing websites scam you into giving away secrets without installing any software at all. A surprising new report reveals that your up-to-date browser is most likely a better protector against phishing than your fancy security suite. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers, Security Software Tags: testing, nss, antiphishing If You Can't Disable Java, What Can You Do? Jan 18, 2013 9:20 AM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid With the latest zero-day vulnerability in Oracle, the most frequent advice is to dump Java. What if you can't? There are some alternative applications, but what do you do when you don't have a choice? Read More » Categories: Web Browsers, Security Tags: Java, zero day Best Browser for Blocking Fraud? Opera! Jan 07, 2013 3:09 PM EST Comments By Neil J. Rubenking Fraudulent websites, called phishing sites, trick users into giving up sensitive security credentials by masquerading as valid secure sites. Modern browsers do their best to flag such sites and protect their users. In a recent AV-Comparatives test, Opera beat out the competition for phishing protection. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers Tags: antiphishing, AV-Comparatives Researchers Bypass Microsoft Fix-It for IE Zero-Day Jan 05, 2013 4:50 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid While the Fix-It blocked the exact attack path used in the attack against the Council on Foreign Relations website, researchers were able to "bypass the fix and compromise a fully-patched system with a variation of the exploit," according to Friday's post on the Exodus blog. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers, Malware, Internet Explorer Tags: Internet Explorer, Zero-Day Google Acts Against Malicious Chrome Extensions Dec 26, 2012 4:26 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid While many of the extensions are accidentally installed by users who were tricked into downloading it, many were installed without the user's knowledge by other dodgy applications using Chrome's auto-install feature. To address that problem, Google has removed auto-installs in the latest version of Chrome. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers Tags: Chrome IE Mouse Tracking Flaw Is A Bug, But Not a Critical One Dec 15, 2012 4:00 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid The recently uncovered security issue in Internext Explorer in which attackers can track a user's mouse movements has been blown out of proportion and doesn't need an out-of-band patch from Microsoft, some security experts said. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers, Microsoft, Internet Explorer Tags: privacy, Internet Explorer, keylogger, tracking Scammers Target Chrome Users With Fake Update Page Dec 01, 2012 12:00 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Many security experts recommend users switch to using Chrome if they haven't already done so in order to stay safe online. It appears some cyber-criminals are modifying their attack techniques to specifically compromise Chrome users, Dave Michmerhuizen, a research scientist at Barracuda Networks, and Luis Chapetti , a security researcher at Barracuda Networks, wrote on the Barracuda Labs blog on Wednesday. Researchers observed how an attack built with Blackhole exploit kit pushed Zeus malware onto unsuspecting site visitors Read More » Categories: Web Browsers Tags: malware Researcher Uses Attack Email to Modify Network Router Settings Nov 28, 2012 3:54 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid A security researcher has designed an attack in which attackers would be able to remotely compromise victims' internal networks just by tricking them into opening up an innocuous looking email on their iPhone, iPad, or Mac devices. Read More » Categories: Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod), Web Browsers, Networking Tags: home network, attack, router, network security Updated Browsers Still Vulnerable to Attack if Plugins Are Outdated Nov 27, 2012 5:09 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Roughly half of Web users are using Web browsers that are vulnerable to known security flaws, said Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys. The company collected browser data from over a million "typical end-user computers" and found that more than half of the tested machines had critical vulnerabilities that would allow attackers to take remote control of the system, search the disk drive for valuable data, monitor all keystrokes, and intercept private information, Kandek said. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers, Security Tags: Chrome, Flash, Safari, Internet Explorer, Java, Adobe Reader, exploit, plugin Shop Online Safely This Holiday Season Nov 24, 2012 3:35 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Retailers aren't the only ones prepping deals for Cyber Monday and the holiday season; cyber-criminals are paying attention, too. Consumers scouring the Web for amazing deals and acting quickly before special offers expire are highly vulnerable to email messages and posts on social networks containing malicious links. Here are some tips to stay safe while shopping online. Read More » Categories: Web Browsers, Shopping, Security Tags: online shopping, eCommerce, scam Researcher Set to Disclose Chrome Zero-Day Nov 23, 2012 6:04 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Georgian researcher Ucha Gobejishvili plans to disclose a previously unknown security hole in Chrome at the MalCon hacking conference in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, according to a summary of talks posted on the MalCon website. Gobejishvili's talk, titled "Project Calypso, Art of Infection," will cover browser exploitation methodologies and focus on the zero-day, according to the summary. 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