Mozilla Foundation and other activist groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have called for the release of Bassel Khartabil, an open-source developer who was detained on March 15 in the Mazzeh district of Damascus in a wave of ...
Tags: Mozilla, Syria, open source developer
Atop the new investigation into Microsoft's failure to give some Windows users a browser ballot screen, European Union (EU) antitrust officials are also looking into charges that Microsoft has blocked rival browser makers from harnessing ...
Tags: EU, Microsoft, browser makers, Windows 8
Google will drop support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) for its online apps and services in mid-November, effectively ending support for many users of Windows XP. "Internet Explorer 10 launches on 10/26/2012, and as a result, ...
Tags: Google, IE8, online apps and services
Google has moved a step closer to making good on its promise to support "Do Not Track" in Chrome by the end of this year. Chromium, Google's open-source project that feeds code into Chrome, released a build last week that includes the Do ...
HAIFA, ISRAEL, June 11, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Global Medical Equipment Platform, MedWOW, has developed free Chrome and Firefox browser search plugins, allowing easier access and convenience for users to view over 170,000 medical ...
Tags: ISRAEL, Medical Equipment Platform, browser search plugin, network
For mainstream and ultrathin laptops Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has launched its new A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for mainstream and ultrathin notebooks all-in-one PCs, home theater systems and embedded designs. Part ...
New website for nationwide commercial and hospital laundry supplier of recyclable soiled linen bags and hamper stands combines best features of mobile-friendly device-aware and device-agnostic RWD. MIAMI BEACH, FL, December 08, 2012 ...
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that almost all browsers currently used in smartphones and tablets are unsafe, so much so that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when they are visiting ...
Tags: mobile browser, SSL, W3C, TLS
A vulnerability in Oracle's Java software that attackers can use to remotely seize control of systems running the program is being sold for"five digits". The security hole is being sold by an established member of an ...
Tags: Oracle, Java zero-day exploit, MidiDevice, sold for'five digits'
Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
Tags: Google, Flash Player sandbox, OS X version of Chrome, PPAPI
IDG News Service-Nokia plans an ambitious expansion of its mapping and location-based services platform beyond its own smartphones to competing devices running OSes other than Windows Phone 8,it said Tuesday. The move is being backed with ...
Tags: Nokia, location service, Windows Phone 8, smartphones
Nearly a quarter of worldwide internet users are still running outdated browsers, creating huge gaps in online security, a study has revealed. Out of a random sample of 10 million customers, security firm Kaspersky found 23% were using ...
Tags: browsers, outdated browsers, online security, Kaspersky, security threats
Cybercriminals are using a new PDF exploit that bypasses the sandbox security features in Adobe Reader X and XI, in order to install banking malware on computers, according to researchers from Russian security firm Group-IB. The zero-day ...
Tags: PDF, Cybercriminals, Adobe Reader, Group-IB
Infoworld - Thinking about the bits of data you leave behind is a one-way ticket to paranoia. Your browser? Full of cookies. Your cellphone? A beacon broadcasting your location at every moment. Search engines track your every curiosity. ...
Tags: Tracks, Online, one-way ticket
Mozilla introduced a pre-loaded list of domains for Firefox that only can be connected to securely in order to help protect the privacy and security of users. To force secure connections between the browser and a server,Mozilla uses ...
Tags: Firefox, Secure Connections, privacy and security, HSTS, browser