Google Chrome browser is new in the market and in a less period of time it is becomming popular. Now Google able to release Beta 2.00 version.   Google  claimed that Chrome 2.0 sports a 25 percent performance gain on the V8 benchmark suite and a 35 percent increase on SunSpider benchmarks. The  New features include autoform...
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Private browsers are aim to enhance the user experience of browsing. It has the following common features. The URL’s visited would not be recorded in the browsers history. Cookies would not be saved during the private sessions and all cookies would be treated as session cookies. All other evidences would be cleaned from...
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Private browsing in browsers is a new trend where the browser dont keep and traces of cookies and history. Currently safari IE and Firefox are offering. This kind of browsers version have a specific target users. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can try the latest Firefox 3.1 build which finally has this feature. It’s simple...
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Microsoft had released the fifth volume of its Security Intelligence Report, providing insight into the security and privacy threat landscape in the January – June 2008 period. The statistics revealed that in the first half of the year, the total amount of malware and potentially unwanted software removed from computers worldwide increased at an...
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clickjacking lets hackers and scammers hide malicious stuff under the cover of the content on a legitimate site. You know what happens when a car-jacker takes a car? Well, click-jacking is like that, except that click is the car. Clickjacking trace back to 1990 and now it is being used again by hackers. Mostly the...
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Think of cookies as a token-pass. Every time you visit a website, you’re issued with a token so that your computer knows you’ve been there before. They’re quite useful because they store some basic information that helps to speed things up when browsing the Internet. However, some websites like to give you tokens with...
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Each web browser is different, so you may have to look around. For example, in Internet Explorer, you can find them by clicking Tools on your menu bar, selecting Internet Options…, choosing the Security tab, and clicking the Custom Level… button. However, in Mozilla, you click Edit on the menu bar, select Preferences…, and...
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To increase functionality or add design embellishments, web sites often rely on scripts that execute programs within the web browser. This active content can be used to create “splash pages” or options like drop-down menus. Unfortunately, these scripts are often a way for attackers to download or execute malicious code on a user’s computer....
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Are you sharing your computer with colleagues, family, or co-habitants? Do you surf with Opera on publically accessible computers? This page holds some tips for maintaining privacy within the same computer and user account. Shared Computer First of all, when installing Opera on a multi-user Windows computer, make sure to opt for separate user directories during...
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The strength of a particular cipher depends on its method, its key size, and associated handling procedures.  All of these must be correctly implemented or the cipher is weakened.  The key is a number that is used to control the mathematical method used to encrypt and decrypt message contents.  Specific procedures must be used...
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Many security experts recommend that you configure IE’s Internet Zone so dangerous technologies are not allowed to run. These recommendations don’t go as far as setting the zone to "High" but protect you against most security breaches that a hacked Web site could expose you to. Many programs other than IE, such as Microsoft Outlook...
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Safari supports many of the same features as Mozilla Firefox. This section describes steps to disable various features in Safari. Note that some menu options may change over time, and you should adapt the steps below as appropriate. In order to change settings, select Safari and then select Preferences… Note that on the Safari menu, you can also...
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