Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Chrome continues to shine and is now the third most popular browser in the U.S., according to StatCounter, a web analytics company. Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is still leading. Combining all versions of IE, Microsoft has a market share of 52 percent, followed by Mozilla's Firefox (28.5 percent). Chrome passed Apple's [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Chrome search engine shines and now accounts for a 6.7 percent market share, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer dives for the first time in years under the 60 percent mark, according to April 2010 statistics from web analytics and market research firm Net Applications. Chrome is now in third place, up from [...]
Redmond (ip-192.com): Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) will feature HTML5 integration, background compiled JavaScript, and scalable vector graphics (SVG) capability. IE 9 is also expected to run faster, since it will offload tasks usually handled within the browser to the graphics processor. It has also the capability to use CPU cores to handle [...]
Redmond (ip-192.com): A new Internet Explorer zero-day exploit has been published on the web. Microsoft says that it did already receive reports that hackers try to exploit the vulnerability with targeted attacks. The exploit can be found in IE 6 and IE 7. "Our investigation so far has shown that Internet Explorer 8 and Internet [...]
Madrid (ip-192.com): Personal details relating to 800,000 were found on a computer after the Spanish police arrested three ringleaders connected to a botnet called Mariposa, the Spanish word for butterfly (ip-192.com reported here). The botnet controlling almost 13 million people did have enough power to bring down the IT-infrastructure of a whole country, said the [...]
Madrid (ip-192.com): Computers in more than half of the Fortune 1,000 companies and at least 40 big financial institutions were infected with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other data. The Mariposa botnet, the Spanish word for butterfly, controlled more than 13 million PC’s in 190 countries. The Spanish police arrested the masterminds [...]
