Showing posts with label browser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label browser. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

FIREFOX 3.5.2 RELEASED!


The Mozilla Foundation has now released its latest update of Firefox- 3.5.2. The update has been a consequence of fixing certain security issues and improvements in the user environments. The security issues involve some including extremely high, high, low and very low level vulnerabilities. For a complete detail on the security issues with the previous update please visit: Bug List of Firefox 3.5.1.

With the latest update, the Mozilla Foundation has made made Firefox capable of displaying images with ICC Profile perfectly on all monitors. To download the latest version Firefox click here (direct download link).

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

MICROSOFT WARNING OF SECURITY FLAWS IN INTERNET EXPLORER


Microsoft has buzzed up internet explorer users of security flaws in the software that can be illegally used by a hacker to breach ones system and possess the same access rights as the local user. Guessing the result? A possible system crash! :(

The problem was found in a program that serves the purpose of online video playing ActiveX Controls of the browser. The flaw, if successfully exploited by a cracker in particular, it can be used to gain the local user rights to access the computer which may have disastrous results.

Microsoft has advised its users to disable the ActiveX Controls till it launched the patched version of the software that the are working on with associates.
Why don't they advice their users to use Firefox? :P
The people at Microsoft are working to fix this problem and also developing a Windows security update to solve the problem.