Posts Tagged ‘security vulnerability

Germans appear to be heeding the advice of their government and seeking out alternatives to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser. Mozilla, creators of the Firefox browser, say they’ve seen a significant surge in downloads of the software in Germany in the days since a Germany government agency recommended people switch to browsers that compete with [...]

With world governments advising citizens to switch from Internet Explorer to alternative browsers, and an unpatched security hole in at least two major versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has to do something to restore faith in their browser. Easiest way to do it, apparently, is saying that other browsers are even worse than IE. Microsoft’s [...]

Mozilla on Friday disabled a Microsoft plug-in for Firefox called the .Net Framework Assistant because of a security problem–then scrambled to give people with patched systems an override option. Mike Shaver, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, announced the first step late Friday night on his blog. “It’s recently surfaced that it has a serious security [...]


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