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The Weekly Round-Up: 09.10.09
Round-Up Or as test machines for non-standard-compliant browsers. I've just been speaking to Tim, he's madly in love. Really? I didn't hear the phone ring. No, it was through instant messenger. Or, Barbara just said she and Dave... [09 Oct 2009]
Your Browser Wears No Clothes: Why Fully Patched Browsers Remain Vulnerable
White Paper As users of technology, it has been taught that the Internet is not always a safe place but that it can protect ourselves by patching and hardening systems. While patch management and system hardening have long been the basics for... [05 Oct 2009]
FOAF+SSL: RESTful Authentication for the Social Web
White Paper This protocol can be used for one-click sign-on to web sites using existing browsers requiring the user to enter neither an identifier nor a password. The paper describes a simple protocol for RESTful authentication,... [04 Oct 2009]
Protecting Your Brand & Customers: Business Value of Extended Validation SSL Certificates
White Paper Because the entity verification process is uniform across all issuing CAs, users should become more comfortable trusting a site that displays the Internet Explorer 7 EV indicators or similar indicators in other browsers. [04 Oct 2009]
Sub-Prime PKI: Attacking Extended Validation SSL
White Paper Modern web browsers support both Domain Validated (DV) and Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates. One of the attributes that the paper discusses is the type of SSL certificate presented by a web server when... [02 Oct 2009]
Napera Selects GlobalSign EmbeddedSSL to Secure Network Access Control Solution
White Paper Napera deployed GlobalSign's SSL Certificates that are inherently trusted by all internet browsers and most mobile devices. In February 2008, Napera began a pilot program to become one of the first companies to utilize a... [01 Oct 2009]
Online fraudsters enlist Trojans to run off with your money
News In this case the malware, a toolkit called LuckySpoilt, exploits a known security hole in the browser, affecting the major browsers, and installs the Trojan on the computer. Researchers at security firm Finjan have... [30 Sep 2009]
The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser
White Paper Web browsers originated as applications that people used to view static web sites sequentially. As web sites evolved into dynamic web applications composing content from various web sites, browsers have... [16 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News Cloud computing, in which applications run over the web in web browsers rather than natively on PCs, provides another way to provide access to corporate resources. The era in which virtualisation directly affects... [04 Sep 2009]
IE slips again as Firefox takes over one in four browsers
News Older browsers lack support for advancements in page layout and graphics, HTML features such as built-in video, and perhaps most crucially, fast execution of web-based JavaScript programs. The browser wars are heating... [03 Sep 2009]
Sony Vaio laptops to come with Google Chrome attached
News Consumers snapping up a new Vaio will get a choice of browsers with their laptop, after Sony announced a deal with Google to put Chrome on Vaio-branded machines. Currently, however, the Chrome-browser Vaios are only... [01 Sep 2009]
Windows, Linux and Mac can now tune into Opera 10
News Opera claims that Opera Turbo runs the browser up to eight times faster on suffering connections than do competing browsers. Other enhancements include an expanded Speed Dial (a feature that has later been adopted and... [01 Sep 2009]
FastRWeb: Fast Interactive Web Framework for Data Mining Using R
White Paper With current browsers and the dynamic technologies such as AJAX it is now possible to create highly interactive content. R is widely used and accepted as a very versatile tool for statistical computing and data analysis. [29 Aug 2009]
Creating Personal Mobile Widgets Without Programming
White Paper Tasklets can be deployed on the client, cloud or on telecom provider network - enabling intuitive web interaction through widgets, thin mobile browsers as well as from mobile phones via SMS and Voice. [29 Aug 2009]
One week left to get Windows 7 on the cheap
News However, amid widespread criticism and indications the browserless options wouldn't fly with European regulators, Microsoft said last month it would scrap that plan and instead allow users in Europe to choose which... [24 Aug 2009]
