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What is the definition of a good browser?That is something someone asked me some time ago. I think that is easy to answer: A browser that obeys standards, is secure and has the potential to "fail safely". Usually the next question I get is: what do you mean with failing safely?  read more »

This is where nightmares are made of.As some of you know there has been a ton of commotion going on about Mozilla Firefox lately. I've waited blogging about it until they had found a real 0day. Today is that day and this time it's for real, Billy Rios e-mailed me his new findings: and anyone could be vulnerable without any user interaction. It's not complicated shellcode execution, but it allows to pass arguments along cmd in windows to launch software among other things.  read more »

This time, we have a virus which hates Orkut and Mozilla Firefox! Mozban virus does not allow PC user to Firefox browser and to open Orkut website. This virus makes use of AutoHotKey to do this and also to replicate itself. Mozban spreads through secondary storage devices like USB drives, CDs etc.
Here are the screen shots of message boxes displayed by the virus when Orkut website is opened of Firefox is launched:  read more »

I've always wanted to write about this but always forgot. I have many things to talk about, but this time I thought it would be nice to cover the browser client caps in Internet Explorer. I had a few browser detection scripts which could detect a lot, but mainly in Firefox. I knew that Internet explorer has a similar detection system but that it worked quite differently than Mozilla Firefox. So I wrote a script that does just that, detecting system info. And as a bonus it also detects installed apps for free.it works like this:

Nowadays many web sites require you to type a user name and password before you can enter the site. One of Mozilla Firefox’s powerful features is the ability to save your passwords so you don’t need to type them in every time.But how well Firefox protects your passwords? Apparently, by default, Firefox lets anyone view [...]