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Is There Such a Thing as a Safe Web Browser?

Source: Mashable!

May 06, 2009

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Do you remember how, a couple of years ago, you could tell someone who was clueless about computers to simply switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox, and that action alone would fix 90% of all their security problems?

This hasn’t been true for a while now, unfortunately. The fact that Internet Explorer is still the most widely used browser out there, which makes it the biggest target, doesn’t mean that malicious hackers aren’t exploiting security vulnerabilities on other browser platforms.

Today, Google has updated its web browser, Chrome, to version 1.0.154.64, which fixes two serious security vulnerabilities. One of those two lets a remote attacker execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the logged on user - pretty much the worst security problem one can have. Google Chrome has a small market share, and once upon a time you didn’t have to worry (much) even about critical security issues like this one, because no one would exploit them. Nowadays, I’m not so sure.

Recently, Mozilla also updated Firefox, fixing several security issues. Just days after v

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Comments (1)

Heather Leigh,

May 06, 2009

very interesting...