By Laura Yecies
We keep getting reports of Web sites being compromised. Whether it’s a hacker hosting a new malware-infested site and baiting Web surfers through popular search engines, or ad servers on legitimate Web sites being compromised, the browser continues to grow in popularity as the latest attack vector for cyber crooks.
ZoneAlarm ForceField was created to specifically to block and repel Browser Bugs. By encapsulating your browser in a sort of virtual “bubble,” any attacks that manage to bypass all the security layers are kept within the bubble, neutralized and away from your sensitive files.
ZA Forcefield currently secures Internet Explorer and Firefox. Recently, Google launched a brand-new browser called Google Chrome. Interestingly, Chrome appears to include an application virtualization technology (reported by the media as utilizing technology from Google’s 2007 acquisition of GreenBorder Technologies). While ZoneAlarm ForceField’s virtualization and security features are far more complete and engineered specifically for browser threats, we couldn’t have asked for a better validation and endorsement of our browser security strategy, even if we’re pretty sure that wasn’t Google’s intention.
You can read more about ZoneAlarm ForceField’s browser virtualization technology and benefits here. What do you think? Are you using ForceField? Have you come across Browser Attacks? I’m definitely interested in your feedback.
On an unrelated note, this is a very interesting story about so-called Password Recovery services.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=163471&WT.svl=news2_2
Advertised as a way to break into your own Web-based e-mail (IE Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail, Gmail etc), these services found usually through search engines can be hackers masquerading as legit. Beware. While some may provide a good service, more likely than not they’re making their money off people trying to break into someone else’s e-mail.
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