With Firefox, I just went to download a certain new version 2.0 web browser and and was surprised that after hitting the license accept button Firefox started up an installer, downloaded the application and installed it without any prompts or questions. This is not the security experience with Firefox...
IE dropped support for URL authentication (e.g., http://user:pass@example.com/ ) around 2004. There are plenty of discussions out there about the merits and problems with URL authentication, so I won't comment on it yet again. However, it is still in the RFC . If you try to load a URL with authentication...
You have likely been tracking the mass SQL Injections that are currently sweeping through the net. Just last night I was shopping on www.ihomeaudio.com when I noticed they had been injected (they have since fixed their site). HP started to observe these attacks in January. They spread to over 500,000...