Avoid Online Nagging – Update Your Browser
The Online Trust Alliance is looking to create a campaign titled “Why Your Browser Matters.” According to research done by OTA and comScore over 40% of the users worldwide are using outdated browsers. Sites such as PayPal will be bugging you to update your browser for security reasons. The Executive Director of OTA Craig Spiezle stated: “the browser is the first and most critical line of defense. While antivirus solutions and patches are critical, the OTA has prioritize browsers as the most important step to protect users. This initiative is an important step to increase online, trust and safety for all users.”
Other sites getting behind this initiative include: Publishers Clearinghouse, Microsoft, Anti-Phishing Working Group, Symantec, and others.
Internet Explorer version 6 is considered an easy target for attacks and still used by almost 10% of web visitors. The truth is, IE 7 isn’t a whole lot better.
Anup Ghosh, chief scientist at software security firm Invincea put it nicely on the topic of patches. “By the time you get the patch, the adversaries have typically had one month to exploit it,” he says. “Patching is good hygiene, but it is not security.”
The most common mistake people make is to think they don’t have anything of value on their computer. Suppose for a moment all you do on your computer is checking e-mail. Let’s further suppose you use a web based e-mail such as Google’s Gmail. Let’s also further suppose your e-mail communications are so boring watching grass grow would be more exciting. You still have something the bad guys want. That is your computer itself. If they can get your computer, it joins a legion of zombies called a bot net. The bad guys use your computer to send out e-mails hawking Viagra, or other e-mails to grow the legion of zombies that they control.
And keep in mind, if they’re doing something really bad, all that bad stuff is coming out of your digital address. This could bring a knock at the door from somebody like the Secret Service or the FBI. You certainly would like to hope that they would knock first, and not use a battering ram.
Browser choices are an awful lot like operating systems. I’m liking what I see in Internet Exploder 10. Enough so I’m going to have to relearn to call it Internet Explorer. Chrome seems to do a great job. Firefox is great, and the web browser called Opera is a good choice too.
Since the browser is free, it’s difficult to say something like: “that’s nice. However I can’t afford it.”
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Very interesting to read your articles. Only the parties can not view in google chrome. Fix it.