I’ve been following the developments of Google Android and Chrome OS with much interest lately. Less from a security/technology perspective and more as a lesson in business

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Why Microsoft should consider retroactively installing AdBlocking software by default

The Mozilla Firefox browser is constantly gaining in popularity. A recent market share survey by Net Applications awards Firefox with 24% of users worldwide. One of the key philosophies of Firefox is that its functionality can easily be extended using plug-ins or extensions

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The Invisible Firefox Extensions

Ten of Application Security industry’s coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week — in no particular order. Regularly released until year end

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Oct. 30)

I woke up this morning and this is what greeted me: A while back, Microsoft released the “.NET Framework Assistant” as a Firefox add-on. Today, Firefox blocked it to disable a security vulnerability that affects it. So if this happens to your Firefox browser, don’t fret, it’s just a security tweak

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Firefox Blocks MS Add-on to Tighten Security

I want to confess a bad habit of mine. I don’t always review my phone bill. As I have an F-Secure provided phone, and because my personal calls are usually well within budget, I often don’t review my billing statement.

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What’s w03.v762.net?

There’s a new version of F-Secure Health Check available for beta testing and it’s considerably different from its predecessor. (We like it.) So what’s new? More browser support and no more ActiveX among other things

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Health Check 2.0 Beta is Available

Ten of Application Security industry’s coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week — in no particular order. Regularly released until year end.

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Sep. 18)

The ability for a Web page to detect if a browser is within a virtualized environment has a number of interesting applications. Malware distributors could serve their payload only to likely victims and avoid analysis from detection engines. One super simple way to do so is by checking the screen dimensions (1024×768, 1440×900, etc.) using JavaScript.

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Web pages Detecting Virtualized Browsers and other tricks