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whitepaper Server-Gated Cryptography: The Illusion of Security2008-10-01 Entrust
  As security vendors compete for market share for SSL certificate sales, some attempt to gain a better foothold by claiming that expensive Server-Gated Cryptography (SGC) certificates are required for 128-bit security. This just isn't the case. SGC is not required to enable 128-bit security for virtually all browsers deployed today. In fact, supporting browsers that require SGC can introduce serious security vulnerabilities to very common present-day attacks. All users who still require SGC are using extremely outdated versions of Web browsers that have not been updated to address the multitude of security issues that have been identified since they were released; security issues that are far more severe than weakness in the cryptography. This poses a significant risk to both the user and the organization.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Security Administration		   
whitepaper Adobe Flash Player 10 Administration Guide2008-10-01 Adobe Systems
  Flash Player is the software that allows computers to play multimedia content contained in SWF (pronounced "Swiff ") files, which are the main type of file used by Flash Player. This content can be created by Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Flex Builder, or other tools that output the SWF file format. SWF content can range from simple animations to online advertisements to complete applications that communicate over the Internet. Flash Player is available in multiple forms. In its most popular form, it is embedded in a web browser as a plug-in or an ActiveX control.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper What Is a Cookie?2008-08-17 SecPoint
  Cookies are employed when one uses the browser to visit web sites on the Internet. The two main browsers, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, both allow the use of cookies. Cookie files allow a web server to store information about the user on his computer, and to retrieve that information to identify the user in the future. A cookie is a tiny piece of text that is placed on the user's hard drive. Its job is to record bits of information such as the pages one has visited, items one has put into an online shopping cart, the user name and password.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Creating Rich Internet Applications With the Adobe Technology Platform2008-07-01 Adobe Systems
  As software has increased in use and importance, the applications people depend on in all aspects of their lives have evolved along a dual path of richness and reach. In the early days of computing, mainframe applications, while powerful for single-purpose problem solving, were neither rich in functionality nor did they have broad reach. As the new generation of personal computers spread throughout businesses, schools, and homes, richer graphical applications evolved with improved functionality and usability. The reach of these user-centric applications, however, was limited to the local desktop and to servers on local networks.

Tags: Internet and Web, Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Comprehensive Analysis of Web Privacy and Anonymous Web Browsers: Are Next Generation Services Based on Collaborative Filtering?2008-06-24 Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  In general, networking privacy enhancing technologies are better on larger user bases - such criteria that can be enhanced by combining them with community based services. This paper presents main web privacy issues and today's complex preventive solutions, anonymous web browsers, in several aspects including a comprehensive taxonomy as a result of the inquiry. Also, the paper suggest a next generation anonymous browser scheme based on collaborative filtering concerning issues on semantic web. Finally the paper analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of such services, also examining the possible investors and raised moral considerations.

Tags: Security Administration, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Firefox Browser Running on Top of GTK - DFB2008-06-20 Calsoft Labs
  GTK+ has been constantly evolving in the gnome environment, and the latest to be added is GTK+ porting on Direct Frame Buffer (DFB). The GDK library inside GTK+ toolkit has been used for rendering into DFB Windowing system rather than using the general X-Windows. This advantage can be derived by the embedded systems market which has many resource constraints, because of the removal of the X Server overhead but still taking advantage of the GUI rich GTK+ environment. So, to make use of this, the existing GTK based gnome applications have to be moved from GTK-X11 to GTKDFB. As part of this process, the paper has developed the Firefox Browser to work under the GTK-DFB environment.

Tags: Desktop Client OS		   
whitepaper Securing Frame Communication in Browsers2008-05-14 Stanford University
  Many web sites embed third-party content in frames, relying on the browser's security policy to protect them from malicious content. Frames, however, are often insufficient isolation primitives because most browsers let framed content manipulate other frames through navigation. The paper evaluates existing frame navigation policies and advocate a stricter policy, which the paper deploys in the open-source browsers. In addition to preventing undesirable interactions, the browser's strict isolation policy also hinders communication between cooperating frames. The paper analyzes two techniques for inter-frame communication.

Tags: Security Administration		   
whitepaper On the Design of a Web Browser: Lessons Learned From Operating Systems2008-05-01 Georgia Institute of Technology
  The advent of "Web 2.0" applications has changed the requirements for a web browser: it has evolved from being an application for rendering static web pages to a host of a variety of applications, where each web page represents a distinct application, such as a news feed, an email client or a video application. This new role has led to the emergence of new security holes in the web browser. While research has focused on fixing these vulnerabilities by augmenting solutions to the current browsers, limited work has been done in designing a browser from scratch considering the current and future role of the browser. The web browser is quickly evolving as a mini-OS running a huge variety of application code.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Multiple Web Browser Image-Based Information Leak2008-05-01 HISPASEC SYSTEMS
  Multiple web browsers, including Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11, Opera 9.50 beta, Apple Safari 3.0.4 and Konqueror 3.5.8, contain unsafe image loading code. Exploiting the code leads to echoing a small, random, heap memory area on the screen - as image data. In case of the web browsers with fully implemented HTML5 tag functionality (Firefox and Opera), the image data can be collected, and sent to a remote server using a simple JavaScript script.

Tags: Internet and Web, Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper The Seamless Browser: Enhancing the Speed of Web Browsing by Zooming and Preview Thumbnails2008-04-25 Association for Computing Machinery
  This paper presents a new web browsing system, Seamless Browser, for fast link traversal on a large screen like TV In navigating web, users mainly suffer from cognitive overhead of determining whether or not to follow links. This overhead can be reduced by providing preview information of the destination of links, and also by providing semantic cues on the nearest location in relation to the anchor.