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In November 2003, the CERT Coordination Center first advised Web users to consider using a Web browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. IE's problems at the time were pervasive, and many of ...

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ActiveX controls accounted for an overwhelming majority of all browser plug-in vulnerabilities in the second half of 2007, Symantec Corp. said this week in its semi-annual Web security report.

The exploitation of ActiveX controls is not new to the security community. While initially designed to provide website authors with new embeddable features, and granting Internet Explorer (IE) users ...

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Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, versions 5.5 SP2 and 6.0 (soon to be released) no longer support Netscape-style plug-ins, such as the plug-in installed as part of QuickTime 5.0.2 and earlier ...

Close up of Google Chrome Web Browser web page on the web browser. Web browsers are the gateway to the internet, used for everything from online banking to social media. However, they also serve as a ...

The purpose of cyberattacks is to collect the sensitive information of the users. A browser named Wave has been reported as a potential security threat by several security experts. In this article, we ...

ActiveX controls accounted for an overwhelming majority of all browser plug-in vulnerabilities in the second half of 2007, Symantec Corp. said this week in its semiannual Web security report.