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Slow websites? Google's Steve Souders explains
Have you ever been frustrated with slow-loading websites? Well, it might not even be related to inexplicable slow-downs in Mozilla Firefox, or to the site that you are visiting. Instead, the problem... Read more...
Botnet plunders 70GB of personal and financial data in 10 days
Researchers from the University of California managed to hack into the command-and-control network used by hackers to manage an 180,000 strong botnet. In the short 10 days that they had access to the... Read more...
Inventor: SSL security woes are really the fault of browser design
Egypt-born Taher Elgamal has been credited as the inventor of today's widely-used SSL protocol. In a recent interview at the RSA Conference, Elgamal explained how SSL man-in-the-middle attacks and... Read more...
Is it only a myth that Firefox is more secure?
Did you make the switch to Firefox, hoping for a more secure browsing experience? According to security firm Secunia, Firefox, the popular open-source browser is even more "riddled with holes than... Read more...
Safari 4 dominates JavaScript benchmarks
The recently released beta of Apple's Safari 4 browser managed to beat all other browsers available today when it comes to rendering JavaScript. Conducted using the SunSpider suite of JavaScript... Read more...
Opera ups the ante in browsing speeds
Opera Software wants to improve the Internet experience by boosting web surfing speed on desktops and mobile. It says its Opera Turbo technology is just the answer for device operators and wireless... Read more...
Mozilla plugs 13 holes in Firefox
Microsoft's Internet Explorer was not the only browser needing a patch this week. Mozilla patched a total of 13 bugs in the Firefox browser, with a large number--almost half--of them listed as... Read more...
IE market shares slip under 70 percent; Windows drops below 90 percent
Internet Explorer's market shares dipped below 70 percent for the first time in the wake of the launch of Google's Chrome web browser, and slightly better showings for Apple's Safari and Mozilla's... Read more...
Opera preps Opera Mobile 9.5
If you follow the world of mobile web browsers, you'll want to take note of the fact that Read more...
Hackers may target your printer
Spam has a new target, and it's your printer. By using a little-known capability found in most Web browsers, Aaron Weaver, a security manager from Pennsylvania, figured out how to hack into a... Read more...
