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Microsoft’s February 2012 bulletins, totaling a number of nine, address 21 security holes that were identified in a few products, some of which may have allowed an attacker to remotely execute malicious code if certain circumstances were met.
Kaspersky Securelist experts reveal that the vulnerabilities discov... |
15 February 2012
03:23 GMT |
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One of the great features the Microsoft decided to include inside Windows 8 was the ability of Metro Applications to take advantage of the performance of Internet Explorer 10 when displaying web content.
Microsoft explains that web content will always be JIT compiled and hardware-accelerated when it comes to Metro... |
8 February 2012
14:41 GMT |
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As Facebook users are preparing for Valentine’s Day, cybercriminals are relying on the fact that lovebirds may be tempted to install a so-called Valentine’s theme to make their profiles more special.
Trend Micro researchers came across one of these scams that attempts to dupe victims into downloading a m... |
31 January 2012
08:16 GMT |
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Wine 1.4 RC1, a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project. This version is the first release candidate for the Wine 1.4 branch and represents an important milestone in the development of Wine (Win... |
30 January 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Website managers who would like to learn whether the latest changes in the Internet Explorer platform also affect their site, can now use the Compat Inspector for IE10 to take a look into the matter.
Compat Inspector can be easily run on a page that has problems, regardless of whether developers are getting ready ... |
24 January 2012
09:42 GMT |
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A flaw currently present in Internet Explorer (IE) could be exploited by hackers and used to launch cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, due to the way double quotes (“) are encoded by the web browser. IMPERVA researchers found the vulnerability and contacted Microsoft, but the Redmond company doesn’t se... |
20 January 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Microsoft is celebrating the fact that Internet Explorer 6 has now dropped below 1 percent market share in the US. That's a significant milestone for the browser which has been the bane of any web developer out there.There's very good reason to Microsoft's celebrating the demise of its own products, it... |
4 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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2011 year was an interesting year in the browser market, albeit a rather predictable one. Internet Explorer lost a bit of market share each month, Google Chrome gained a bit to almost double its share from the start of 2011 and Firefox stagnated.
That's according to Net Applications data, others show a better d... |
3 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Internet Explorer has had a great year in 2011, Microsoft says. To celebrate this, the company has decided to bring joy in the hearts of children this holiday season, and has partnered with Starlight Children’s Foundation. There are many children who cannot enjoy the holiday season the same way that most of ... |
22 December 2011
15:21 GMT |
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The latest versions of Internet Explorer can offer an enhanced HTML5 experience to users, since they can take advantage of hardware capabilities of the computer they are running on.
And when complemented by touchscreen capabilities in Windows 8, things get even more exciting, at least this is what the Redmond-base... |
21 December 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome is continuing its march towards dominance. While it has just overtaken Firefox, slightly, in overall market share, it's not stopping here. The latest numbers from StatCounter indicate that Google Chrome 15 has become the most popular browser version in the world.Overall, IE still leads in market sh... |
16 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Yesterday, Microsoft announced a new feature being added to its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, namely auto updates, set to kick off in January in Australia and Brazil, and the company was keen on explaining that the move should not affect businesses. As part of this move, the company is re-issuing the IE9 or IE8 W... |
16 December 2011
07:48 GMT |
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Microsoft is, slowly as always, getting into line with the other browser makers and will start issuing automatic updates for Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Vista and 7.What this means is that users still running IE8, IE7 or even IE6, will be upgraded to the newest version available for their operating system, IE8 f... |
15 December 2011
19:11 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft announced a major change in its strategy related to offering new flavors of Internet Explorer to users: the introduction of automatic upgrades.
This change is meant to ensure that Window users take advantage of the latest Internet Explorer (IE) version out there.
The move will kick off in Januar... |
15 December 2011
09:45 GMT |
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In a new study issued by Accuvant, Google Chrome was deemed to be the most secure browser, based on the technologies and measures it implements to ensure that rogue code does at little damage as possible. Internet Explorer was found to be close and comparable to Google Chrome, while Firefox was found to be lacking i... |
12 December 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Thanksgiving is here, at least for one particular country in the world. Americans get together with their families to celebrate and simply spend some time all in the same place.But for anyone with even the slightest tech inclinations, any holiday with the family means fixing everyone's computers. Few look forwar... |
24 November 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Google has finally done it, its Chrome browser is now the second most popular in the world, topped only by Internet Explorer. According to the latest StatCounter numbers, Chrome has just edged past Firefox, last week, taking the number two spot.
The most interesting part is that Chrome actually lost a bit of market ... |
18 November 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Not much of a shake up in the browser market this month, but there are a few interesting things happening. Internet Explorer is continuing its slow descent and is approaching the 50 percent mark, in global market share, but it has not reached it.Elsewhere is business as usual, Firefox saw a small uptick, Chrome saw a... |
2 November 2011
17:11 GMT |
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On Windows 7, it's already mission accomplished for Google Chrome, but it's got more to grow before it becomes the number two browser in the world, overall. But it's getting there, in September it chipped away more market share, mostly from Internet Explorer.
Firefox, in fact, saw a small boost in n... |
4 October 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome is already the number two browser, ahead of Firefox, on Windows 7. Windows 7 is hardly the dominant operating system on the web, but it does indicate a larger trend. If Chrome has managed to overtake Firefox on one platform, it's going to do it on others as well. Microsoft has provided some data, ... |
3 October 2011
10:31 GMT |
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The web browser market hasn't seen any huge changes in August, but some trends are accelerating. For example, Firefox lost almost half of a percent point in the last month alone, the biggest drop since the start of the year.Meanwhile, Google Chrome saw a bigger rise than usual, gaining almost one percent point, ... |
6 September 2011
16:51 GMT |
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First used in attacks against users of Google.com web properties, fraudulent DigiNotar digital certificates issued for *.microsoft.com, *.windowsupdate.com, www.update.microsoft.com were also identified by Microsoft.
The software giant, along with additional companies, including browsing vendors, reacted rapidly... |
6 September 2011
06:26 GMT |
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Spoofed certificates for .microsoft.com and .windowsupdate.com are among those issued by Dutch-based DigiNotar, which has been at the center of a scandal involved fraudulent certificates used to attack users of Google.com sites.
Microsoft has confirmed officially that certificates for its own online properties f... |
5 September 2011
07:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has removed a rogue SSL root certificate issued by DigiNotar from the list of trusted Windows root certificates in an effort designed to protect users of Internet Explorer from attacks impersonating Google online properties, including Gmail.
Dave Forstrom, director of Trustworthy Computing for Microsof... |
30 August 2011
09:11 GMT |
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The browser market is changing, but, globally, things move pretty slow. Internet Explorer is king, although it's been losing market share for years, Firefox comes in second and Chrome in third place.But if you look at some local markets, even at the continent level, things are more interesting as Pingdom has poi... |
27 August 2011
05:24 GMT |
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16 years after it made its debut to the world wide web as an underdog but with the Windows monopoly behind it, Internet Explorer is up against a number of rivals, and just as the Netscape browser it killed, it’s seeing its market share being eroded. Internet Explorer 1 was launched on August 16, 1995, and 16 y... |
16 August 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Microsoft expects reliable exploits to be created in the next thirty days for the critical Internet Explorer vulnerabilities patched this Tuesday.The MS11-057 IE security bulletin addresses seven security vulnerabilities that affect all versions of the browser on all supported Windows flavors.Five of the flaws were r... |
10 August 2011
13:00 GMT |
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A couple of months ago, Google released the latest version of its Toolbar for Internet Explorer which introduced built-in Instant Search, enabling users to get results as soon as they start typing in the search box. The feature was not enabled by default, allowing users to ease into and Google to do some more testing... |
9 July 2011
05:05 GMT |
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Hardly surprising, but Google Chrome has continued its steady, though recently somewhat slower, rise, gaining even more users, while Firefox and Internet Explorer's market share slips away slowly. Granted, it's going to be a while before Chrome becomes a threat to Firefox, depending on who's numbers yo... |
1 July 2011
11:31 GMT |
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All Internet Explorer customers are supported equally, revealed IE boss Dean Hachamovitch recently, taking a jab at rivals Google and Mozilla which both focus more on end users, all but ignoring business customers. Hachamovitch, who is IE Corporate Vice President, pointed out that Google and Mozilla opted to support... |
28 June 2011
09:11 GMT |
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A new, updated SkyDrive website is now available for the over 100 million people who already gave the service a try, promising a faster experience, easier navigation, along with optimizations for today's modern browsers and HTML5. The new SkyDrive should have been already rolled out for all users, but, provided... |
22 June 2011
02:01 GMT |
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A critical Internet Explorer vulnerability patched by Microsoft last week is being exploited targeted attacks launched from websites that infect computers with malware.The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2011-1255, affects Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8, running on all supported Windows operating systems.It ... |
21 June 2011
14:46 GMT |
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Google has finally released a version of Google Chrome Frame which doesn't require administrative privileges to install, removing the last major hurdle for those with no alternatives to Internet Explorer.For almost a couple of years now, Google has been offering a way for those stuck with old versions of Interne... |
21 June 2011
05:26 GMT |
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WebGL is facing a tough future, at least the foreseeable one, now that Microsoft has officially come out and said that it won't be supporting WebGL in Internet Explorer, citing security concerns as the main reason behind this. Microsoft exemplified this through a number of third-party reports that showed flaws a... |
17 June 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome continues to grab market share, though its pace may be slowing down a bit. But Firefox also saw a very small growth in the past month. Internet Explorer's market share, on the whole, is still dropping, though at the speed things change in the browser market, it's still going to be the king for... |
3 June 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Microsoft will plug a zero-day security hole in Internet Explorer that can allow potential attackers to steal session cookies from users even though it has made it clear that it doesn’t consider the vulnerability as posing a high risk to customers, and without having detected active attacks in the wild. The on... |
30 May 2011
06:25 GMT |
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Microsoft is planning to patch a recently disclosed IE vulnerability that facilitates session hijacking attacks and suggests using the browser's private mode feature until then.The new type of attack, dubbed cookiejacking, was demonstrated at the recent Hack in the Box 2011 conference in Amsterdam by Italian sec... |
30 May 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Microsoft’s efforts around HTML5 and JavaScript in the context of Internet Explorer’s evolution will surpass those of rivals Google and Mozilla, according to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. The CEO of the third largest technology company in the world after Apple and IBM, revealed during the Micros... |
24 May 2011
13:01 GMT |
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The next major version of Flash Player, which is currently in beta stage, will leverage APIs already supported in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer to allow clearing Flash Local Shared Objects (LSOs) directly from inside the browsers.LSOs are containers where Flash applications can store various pieces of informa... |
5 May 2011
13:32 GMT |
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Browser toolbars aren't the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Google, but the company has one of those too and it has just updated the Internet Explorer version. Google Toolbar 7 for IE comes with several big new features, the highlight being the new Toolbar Instant search. There are other im... |
20 April 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Users that already made the jump to the latest iteration of Internet Explorer will not need to deploy any IE-specific patches this month. According to Microsoft, this month’s Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer does not apply to Internet Explorer 9. [ARMARK=1] IE9 was released to web less than a m... |
13 April 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is now offering details on the upcoming Springboard Series Tour scheduled to start this May, living up to the promise it made in March of this year. Essentially, the Redmond company published the tour stops, namely the six cities that will be visited ahead of Atlanta for TechEd US. According to the softwar... |
8 April 2011
07:10 GMT |
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It is well known that no matter how much software developers strive to offer the best version of a product there will always be some nitpicker expecting a different configuration. Internet Explorer 9 just launched on Monday but tweaking solutions for the application have been around for a long time. TweakIE9 is not ... |
18 March 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Two years. That’s how long it took Microsoft to move from version 8 of Internet Explorer to a new edition. The ninth version of the web browser passed through 8 Platform previews, one beta and a Release Candidate to reach end users’ computers as a final release. Given the amount of attention it received ... |
15 March 2011
17:27 GMT |
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Ten years after it came into service, Internet Explorer 6 is still used by a lot more people than it should at this point. There have been several efforts to determine those still using it to upgrade and now even Microsoft is joining the 'fight.'The giant has launched ie6countdown.com which aims to track us... |
7 March 2011
02:40 GMT |
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With Microsoft putting the finishing touches on Internet Explorer 9, the overall usage share of Internet Explorer increased after half a year of decline.Internet metrics company Net Applications share fresh statistics of the browser market on March 1st, 2011, indicating that IE’s share jumped by no less than 0... |
1 March 2011
09:19 GMT |
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With both Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 getting close to a stable release, it seems like the battle is heating up. With the IE9 release candidate just out, Mozilla is taking Microsoft to task about some of its claims and, what it believes to be, misleading marketing. Mozilla evangelist Paul Rouget asks the simple... |
16 February 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Nothing spectacular happened in the browser market in January, apart from a big milestone for Chrome and a (negative) record for Internet Explorer. Google's browser broke through the 10 percent mark for the first time, according to Net Applications numbers. Meanwhile, IE saw its lowest market share number since ... |
2 February 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 continues to increase its dominance on the browser market worldwide, as Internet Explorer 9 is cooking in Redmond. The latest statistics made public by Microsoft indicate that IE8 has enjoyed strong growth over the first month of 2011. Data from Internet metrics company Net Applications reveals ... |
1 February 2011
06:16 GMT |
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Microsoft is investigating reports of a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability being exploited in the wild and has released a workaround for customers to protect themselves until a permanent patch is ready.The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2010-3971, was originally reported on the Full Disclosure mailing list on... |
12 January 2011
07:34 GMT |
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