http://blog.cccnext.net Technology news and articles Tue, 13 May 2008 15:08:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've been closely following the world of software security, especially in relation to web browsers, you've probably heard about a recent URI handling problem found in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox which could allow a website to execute malicious code on your computer. There has been a lot ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/07/26/internet-explorer-and-firefox-uri-vulnerabilities/ A couple of weeks ago, Apple gave the web development world a nice surprise when it released a beta Windows version of its Safari 3 web browser. Safari is currently the third most used browser on the Web with about 5% usage share, largely due to the fact that it is ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/06/28/safari-for-windows-beta-is-released-met-with-problems/ Web applications have been all the buzz lately. Traditional desktop applications for e-mail, calendars, and basic word processing have begun losing favor to the online versions you can use in a web browser. Google has so far lead the pack in web application development, and they have recently released a ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/06/03/google-introduces-tool-for-offline-web-apps/ Secunia, a major software security tracking company, recently released a report which found that 28% of popular software installations miss important security updates. This means that the users of that software have neglected to apply the critical security updates provided by the vendors. The data was gathered through Secunia's free ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/05/16/28-of-all-applications-are-insecure/ Google recently conducted a large-scale study which showed that about 1 in 10 websites attempted to install malicious software like viruses, spyware, adware, or other malware without the user's knowledge or consent. About 1 in 4 websites had links or other content leading to malicious software. While it has always been ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/05/15/1-in-10-websites-could-harm-your-computer/ If you've been using Mozilla Firefox as your web browser for a while, you should make sure that you are using the latest version. By mid-May, Mozilla will have officially ended support for Firefox 1.5, which was released in late 2005, and they are encouraging everyone to upgrade to version ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/04/25/upgrade-your-firefox/ Net Applications, a web metrics company, has released a newsletter featuring its March 2007 web browser usage statistics. These attempt to measure what percentages of the Web's users are using which web browsers. The February and March usage percentages are as follows: Internet Explorer: 79.09% → 78.57% Firefox: 14.18% → 15.10% Safari: 4.85% → ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/04/05/net-applications-reports-browser-usage-figures/ Web browsing has become so commonplace these days that many people aren't even aware of what a web browser is. A web browser is the program you load to start looking at web pages. I'm not talking about things like Google or Yahoo -- those are search engines, which are ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/03/21/what-is-a-web-browser/ The Firefox web browser has just added APNG support to its development versions, meaning it will appear in a future release. APNG is an animated version of the popular PNG image format, solving one of PNG's main shortcomings to the GIF format. APNG was designed to replace MNG, a different ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/03/20/firefox-adds-support-for-apng/