The private browsing option offered by Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari may not be keeping users’ browsing history as private as it should do.
The private mode is supposed to make sure that no information is recorded about the sites visited, but security experts from Stanford University in California have found that tracks can [...]
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If you have an Apple device running iOS4, from an iPhone to iPad, you need to be careful about what websites you’re visiting with PDF content.
This is because Gizmodo has highlighted a flaw with the PDF format which can be used to malicious ends via the Safari browser in iOS4.
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iOS4 PDF flaw hits Apple devices
Jailbreakme 2.0 has been released to allow iPhone 4 owners to jailbreak their handset, as well as previous generation iPhone owners, and for that matter iPad or iPod Touch devotees.
Jailbreaking is the name of the process of unlocking the device to allow it to run third-party apps which Apple hasn’t approved.
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It seems that while computer users spend money on security measures to keep criminals out of their computers, they could actually be leaving traces around the internet themselves.
According to the internet privacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a web browser can be as individual to the user as a camera or old style typewriter can be.
As users work their way around the internet they leave a trail, with cookies, plugins and data from the operating system.
This is a fingerprint and can ultimately be used to identify the user.
In a test carried out by the EFF, around 84 per cent of volunteers could be identified after visiting a specially created website.
To make thing worse, there are companies that are beginning to sell browser fingerprint products.
The browser war is not over. There is no clear winner – however, there is a clear loser. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has seen its share in the browser market decrease as years go by. In April, it hit an all time low at under 60 percent according to the latest NetApplications statistics. Internet Explorer’s losses are at the expense of Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome browser which continue to grow more popular.
For the first time since Internet Explorer 4 won over Netscape over 10 years ago, Microsoft’s browser has dropped in usage to 59.95 per cent market share in April this year. Internet Explorer had an 80 percent market share less than two years ago.
According to the survey, Mozilla’s Firefox browser now has nearly 25 percent market share, and has been stationery for the last two months at around a quarter of the market. Firefox is still the largest threat to Internet Explorer’s dominance. Next in line is Google’s Chrome browser with 6.7 percent and is growing very fast. This growth is very impressive as Chrome climbed from 0 to 6.7 in just two years.
Opera, which has been recently in the news with their new Opera Mini browser for iPhone, commands only 2.3 percent of the market in the NetApplications statistics.
NetApplciation’s numbers are not too far off from StatCounter data either, which says that Internet Explorer has 56.5 percent of the market share, followed by Firefox with 31.3 per cent, then by Chrome and Safari with 5.3 and 3.6 percent respectively. StatCounter measures Opera at 2.2 percent.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer Drops Share in Browser Market
