The browser wars are summarized nicely with this drawing from The Shoze Blog. In addition to the blog, you can find more of their works on DeviantArt. … [Read more...]
AVG’s Second Quarter Report Shows Malware Trends Across Multiple Platforms
Antivirus software is installed around the world and gets to see (and hopefully stop) a lot of malicious attempts to infect a computer. AVG has compiled their data from the second quarter of what their anti-virus and Internet Security software has recognized in the AVG Community Powered Threat Report - Q2 2011 (pdf). The numbers are nicely graphed out to make it quite apparent … [Read more...]
Google Takes Strides Against Insecure Javascript
In the past few days, Google's Online Security blog has made a few posts related to closing the security hole that Javascript opens. As a popular vector for infecting site visitors, Google is helping where they can - inside the Google Chrome browser. Mozilla Firefox has its add-on, NoScript, which helps secure users with it installed from malicious Javascript on webpages. While … [Read more...]
WordPress Warns: Popular WordPress Plugins Given Backdoors and Pushed Out
WordPress.org warned tonight that a few popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) for self-hosted WordPress blogs were suspiciously updated today. Upon closer inspection, the updates did not appear to come from the plugins' respective authors and the changes made to the code included backdoors to allow others access to the site. Since becoming aware of these … [Read more...]
Firefox 5 Lands Without A Bunch of Fanfare But Brings Do-Not-Track
Remember when Firefox 3 was released and there was a big deal about setting the world record for number of downloads in a day? Well, the same hoopla hasn't come to town with Firefox 5's release today. Trying to keep up with Google Chrome frequent release rate, which has a stable version at 12 within its 3 years of existence, Mozilla is increasing the pace of major releases. … [Read more...]