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While Google’s Chrome web browser takes the market lead, Microsoft Edge is nowhere to be found.
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Change the default browser in Windows Server
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If you’re one of the people who is still stubbornly holding onto Windows XP (which stopped receiving support and security updates as of April 8, 2014), it’s time to let go. Likewise, if you’re using…read more
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Microsoft today pushed out 13 security updates to fix at least 39 separate vulnerabilities in its various Windows operating systems and software. Five of the updates fix flaws that allow hackers or malware to break into vulnerable systems without any help from the user, save for perhaps visiting a hacked Web site. Continue reading Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Updates
Using Internet Explorer 11 I have been able to login to HTTPS web applications by providing a username and password and then subsequently logout. Whilst the browser process is running I can then dump the browser memory (for e… Continue reading Can I Prevent Internet Explorer from Storing Login Requests in Memory?
I have an HTTP webpage with a piece of JavaScript that adds an iframe to the page. The iframe is pointing to an HTTPS page. In the IE11 developer console, this error appears:
SEC7111: HTTPS security is compromised by https… Continue reading Mixed Content error in IE11 – HTTPS resource on HTTP page
sha1 certificates are deprecated. The web browser Google Chrome shows a red security warning for the website https://sha1-2017.badssl.com/ (sha1 certificate expires in 2017). It shows neutral (neither green padlock nor red warning) for https://sha1-2016.badssl.com/ . Otherwise the pages load normally.
I read http://blogs.technet.com/b/pki/archive/2013/11/12/sha1-deprecation-policy.aspx but don’t understand Microsoft’s policy. Will Internet Explorer eventually refuse these certificates too? When exactly, and how so—what will it look like? An address bar warning like Chrome, or a scary interstitial ?
The two websites load without warnings in Firefox 41, but I understand Mozilla plan to introduce “This Connection is Untrusted” interstitials from Firefox 43. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/10/20/continuing-to-phase-out-sha-1-certificates/
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Recently I found an old installation CD for Windows 98 Second Edition, and looking for a bit of a nostalgia kick, I installed it inside VirtualBox. Win98SE shipped with IE 5.0, and browsing the web with that browser was as broken an experi… Continue reading Why can’t Windows 98/IE5 connect to HTTPS sites in 2015?
Windows 10 was released with a new browser called Microsoft Edge. Interestingly, Internet Explorer is also installed on the same default install. Given that Chrome and Firefox tend to separate their cache, or even root cert… Continue reading Does Microsoft Edge (Spartan) share Cookies, Cache, Passwords, or TLS Certificates with Internet Explorer?
I’m receiving spam emails that, looking at the email headers, appear to be coming from a variety of computers around the planet. They’re always the same type of email that contains invalid URLs inside of HTML IMG tags. I’ve set Thunderbird… Continue reading How to analyze spam email URLs to detect exploits?