Tag: SAFARI

The War of the Web Browsers mostly takes place on one battlefield: speed. And while Google's Chrome is the clear winner on that front, there are other skirmishes -- like those over add-ons and resource usage -- of which Firefox is the clear victor. Until now the only victories that Internet Explorer could claim were 'Largest Install Base' and 'Most Vulnerable to Hackers.' But tech blog AnandTech ...

Today was the start of Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC), and today's keynote started off the week-long event with a bang. There were so many announcements that we could easily spend all day sharing every minute detail of the upgrades and new products in the Apple family. We'll leave the nitty-gritty stuff to someone else, so here's a quick recap of everything you need to know about ...

When Google's new browser Chrome launched by surprise yesterday, many fans of the famously "do no evil" search company rushed to download it. Who wouldn't be wooed by its clean looks, fast performance, and pledges of security? So far, we think the browser delivers on the first two -- but we're not so sure on that last one. Word is hitting the Web that Chrome is vulnerable to a Safari-related ...

It's long been held that Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser was far and away the least secure browser available. Anyone who thought otherwise only had to look at the long and constant IE security bulletins to see what could be perceived as a glaring hole in the thing. But it seems as though maybe those updates are at least partially due only to commonality, as the increasing popularity of ...

If there's one thing Apple users love to taunt Windows users about, it's security. Mac owners giddily flaunt their lack of virus scanners and lack of worries in front of their PC comrades, whose machines look comparatively bloated with virus scanners, firewalls, and daily patch updates to fix the exploit du jour. Bad news for those Mac users, then, as a recent hacking competition showed that ...

As more people switch to Mac and pick up iPhones, the Apple-built web browser Safari is becoming more and more popular. Though it still only makes up 4.5 percent of the web browser market, that is still a significant number of people who should take heed of PayPal's warning: Use another browser. The online payment company is strongly suggesting that users visit the site with a different browser, ...

Apple is wasting little time popping out those iPhone updates. 1.0.1 went out yesterday to much undeserved fan-fair. The update seems to be almost entirely Safari-related security fixes, and not many of them, based on the change log. No new features, no stability updates mentioned, but still, plugging those security holes is better than nothing. Engadget seems to think that Safari feels more ...

Reseachers at Independent Security Evaluators, a Baltimore-based group of security consultants, have found a bug that reputedly has the potential to allow hackers to take complete control of your iPhone. The problem lies in Safari, the Web browser installed on the phone and (currently) the only means for iPhone users to run non-Apple certified applications like Jive Talk. Apple has indicated that ...

As we reported yesterday, Apple released its Safari Web browser for the Windows XP and Vista operating systems. Within hours of that release, users not only found bugs, but they also discovered some Windows-like security risks within the browser code. Among the "bugs" is Trojan horse code that could allow a remote computer to execute operating-system-level commands on another computer. This code ...