Criminals are reportedly using a new phishing technique that allows them to bypass the fraud warnings issued by modern browsers such as Firefox and Chrome. On its blog, security firm M86Security reports that the trick involves attaching an HTML document instead of sending a link. It remains unclear how many users have become victims so far… “ 17 March 2011 More The H Security: News and Features Go get it.
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Adobe has published a security advisory in response to a critical flaw found in Flash Player. The vulnerability affects Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Android, and also impacts the authplay.dll component included in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X… “ More PCWorld Business Center
“Grabbing screens and pulling images from the web just got a bit easier. With the Pixlr Grabber add-on, you can copy, save, share or even edit your final grabs – including any image or background – with just a right-click. Try out Pixlr Editor http://pixlr.com/editor Try out Pixlr imm.io http://imm.io Edit in Pixlr Editor or Express, Share them to Pixlr imm.io or save them direct to the desktop. This is a one-stop shop for screen grabs. We bring you advances and lightweight editing possibilities, guaranteed to speed up your work flow. Grab the entire page, visible part or select area…
Mozilla has urged users to update their graphics cards’ drivers if they want to take advantage of Firefox 4’s hardware acceleration. Last Friday, Benoit Jacob, who works on Mozilla’s platform engineering team, spelled out why users should verify that their computers, especially PCs powered by Windows, have the latest graphics drivers. “When we turned these features on by default in nightly builds around September last year, and then in [Firefox 4] Beta 7, crash statistics and bug reports quickly showed that bugs in graphics drivers were often making these features misbehave,” Jacob said… March 7, 2011 Mozilla urges users to…
Mozilla on Thursday launched a developer preview of its Web application platform, a more distributed version of what Google is doing with its Chrome Web Store.<br>”Web applications are simply Web sites with an accompanying configuration file. This file, the manifest, contains extra information necessary to install the Web app, which in some instances may make it available when there’s no network connection.<br>”Google’s Web app specification makes a distinction between installable Web apps and hosted Web apps. The former rely on Google Chrome Extension APIs and only run in the Chrome browser. The latter are simply what we know today as…
Trying various Linux installs I start with a new Firefox often and sometimes useful add-ons get dropped. Here is one I just added back. Make any pages’ search functionality available in the Search Bar (or “search box”)… You can also add variations of the same search engine. For example I just added the old style image search on Google to mine. Add to Search Bar :: Add-ons for Firefox Right Click Menu
Having a hard time reading on the web? Is that website with the ridiculously small font and hot-pink-on-slightly-darker-hot-pink text raising your blood pressure? NoSquint can: * Override the default text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels for all websites * Enforce your own foreground and background colors * Remember your zoom levels and color settings per site, automatically applying them when you return. * Disagree with what NoSquint calls a site? A powerful exceptions mechanism lets you split up or group together sites with URL patterns. “ Works with Firefox 3.0 – 4.0.* NoSquint :: Add-ons for Firefox
“Backdoor.Lavandos.A steals personal data from accounts on the infected computer after setting up a ‘setupapi.dll’ in the installation root folder for Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer,” according to SC Magazine. esecurityplanet.com
Trying this out now. If nothing else I will be glad to get rid of the multiple prompts. ” Firefox only: If you’re not using Firefox’s Master Password to lock down your saved passwords, that’s a mistake. Then again, the Master Password itself could be more secure and less annoying. The Master Password+ extension fixes its subject on both those fronts… “ Jan 5, 2011 http://lifehacker.com/5725385/master-password%252B-vastly-improves-firefoxs-password-security
” Researchers from security firm Zscaler have published free software that detects when users’ web connections are being monitored by a controversial tool that steals log-in credentials from Facebook, Google and dozens of other websites.Dubbed BlackSheep, the Firefox extension alerts users when computers on a local area network are using FireSheep to steal unencrypted cookies the websites use to grant users access to their account pages. When BlackSheep detects the snoop software in a hotspot or other open Wi-Fi network, it displays a message that reads “Somebody is using FireSheep on this network.” It then displays the LAN IP address…