Posts Tagged Internet Explorer
Defeating SSL Vulnerability Remain unfixed
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in News, Vulnerabilities & attacks, Web Security on October 4, 2009
It has been now Nine weeks since Moxie Marlinspike demonstrated the “new” way of attacking SSL at the Black Hat security conference by the help of his tool, called SSLstrip he was able to make a man-in-the-middle attack on normal, insecure http traffic and replaces links to secure https pages with normal http, so after a user submit the login and password or credit card credential the attacker can find all details in clear without the notice of victim.
Well Microsoft Internet explorer still not fixed to this vulnerability as well as other browser that support CryptoAPI, so here we have a great risk for our resources like VPN and Mail servers.
Actually the Bug ignore all characters like “/” and “0” but organization looks at the domain name, with or without these characters.
So an attacker can create a valid certificate name for your site and use it for example we need to issue a certificate for thoughtcrime.org than the string will be as follow:
www.bankofamerica.com\*thoughtcrime.org
Now the browsers that process SSL-Certificate over Microsoft library are Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Internet Explorer. On the other hand developers of Firefox fixed this Bug just few days after the Black Hat presentation.
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Google Plug-in Boost IE speed 10 Times
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Browser, Internet on September 26, 2009
A New test has been conducted by Computerworld researchers concluded that Chrome Frame plug-in improves JavaScript performance 9.6 times in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). During the test it was used Sunspider Javascript for three times to show the speed improvement in Microsoft Internet browser.
This plug-in is already embedded in Google chrome while on last Tuesday they added the support of Internet explorer, This adds an extra speed and support to several standards like HTML 5.
Google has been focusing over the last years in providing a clear and highly effective solution for the online working application, so this plug-in can help IE users to work on online application such as Google Wave and others with the same performance like on Google chrome.
Chrome Frame is available now for IE6, 7 and IE8, running under Windows XP and Windows Vista operating system, So get your copy now It’s free and installs in a few seconds..
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