Ilya Kozhevnikov

1. Announcing SquirrelFish
2. Introducing IE=EmulateIE7
3. about:mozilla - Firefox 3 RC2, Governance, Accessibility, Bugdays, Acid3, T-shirts, and more…
4. Firefox Keeps Nipping at Microsoft
5. Firefox 3 and Safari 4 in browser speed race
6. Third Firefox 3 Release Candidate available for download
7. What’s Coming in Internet Explorer 8 for IT Professionals?
8. Firefox 3 To Be Released On June 17th
9. Firefox Mobile concept video
10. Opera 9.5
11. Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) planned features draft

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1. Nielsen: Mobile Internet Causes 13% Jump in Web Site Audience
2. Dragonfly Smashes Bugs in Opera
3. IE8 to boost ActiveX security on Vista
4. Opera Mini 4.1 released with better page and file management
5. Adobe Releases Flash 10 Beta
6. Apple okay with Safari ‘carpet bombing’ vuln for now
7. A tantalizing taste of Firefox 3: testing RC1
8. Firefox 3.1 targeted for year’s end
9. Opera Takes on Apple With Open Widget SDK
10. A second Firefox 3 RC confirmed
11. SquirrelFish: WebKit has a new, fast, JavaScript engine
12. IE8 Beta 2 Coming in August

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1. Apple, Mozilla Plug Critical JavaScript Browser Flaws
2. iPhone’s Safari browser simplifies phishing, researchers say
3. PayPal Gives Safari Users a Break Despite Security Shortcomings
4. Flock Announces Eco-Edition of Award Winning Social Web Browser
5. Firefox 3 Bookmarks (My god, it’s full of stars…)
6. about:mozilla - Firefox 2.0.0.14, Camino 1.6, Privacy policy, AMO, Security metrics, and more
7. Live Mesh: First Look at Microsoft’s New Platform
8. Now your mobile phones get to take some Acid
9. The Next Browser War
10. WebKit GTK+ port passes Acid3 on Linux
11. Mozilla: Fennec to Revolutionize Mobile Browsing
12. Firefox reached 29% share in Europe
13. Opera Desktop Beta 2 (Kestrel) now available for download
14. Web 2.0: Firefox Key To Open Mobile Web
15. IETester
16. Firefox wins Webware 100 2008!
17. Hackers Focus Efforts on Firefox, Safari

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1. iPhone is already the top mobile browser
2. First look: Mozilla Fennec takes browser fight to handhelds
3. The story behind Opera Mini on Google Android
4. HTML and DOM Standards Compliance in IE8 Beta 1
5. The new Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Mobile 6.1 - desktop browsing from Windows Mobile
6. Research fingers ActiveX, QuickTime as buggiest browser plug-ins
7. Mobile Firefox Prototype Arrives
8. Why Firefox Is Thinking Small: Mobile Browser Market To Explode
9. Updated Web Browsers: Which One Works Best?
10. First look: AT&T’s Pogo browser beta tries too hard, fails
11. Is the Mobile Web Dead? Some Mobile Entrepreneurs Say Yes
12. about:mozilla - Firefox 3 RC1, New tinderbox trees, Fennec reviewed, Web analytics, AMO, and more
13. Mobile Web must die!
14. Gomez Announces Web Performance Testing Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
15. Firefox 2.0.0.14 security and stability update now available for download
16. Camino 1.6 released
17. After Criticism, Apple Software Updater Gets UI Makeover
18. AT&T, Vizible To Launch Firefox-Based Browser With Ads
19. Mobile Web Browsers Have No Where To Go But Up
20. Apple patches Safari bug from hacking contest
21. Paypal to block ‘unsafe browsers’
22. Apple Ends Stealth Safari Installs Via Software Update For Windows
23. PayPal Bans Browsers; Mac Love; Cell Phone Bans
24. Apple should call PayPal’s bluff
25. Yahoo! BrowserPlus: The rumour is true
26. AT&T Pogo Browser

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There are a handful of scenarios I can think of where you might require to install Java (in this case JRE to be specific) without an Internet connection: remote location, bad drivers, your corporate firewall to name a few. Here is a short tutorial to quickly get around two unpleasant issues with dependency hell.
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1. First look: Adobe AIR alpha unleashed for Linux
2. Mozilla wants to put Firefox in the cloud and your pocket
3. Firefox 3 Beta 5 twice as fast in the cloud: Mozilla
4. iPhone browser to be updated soon, adding CSS Transforms and Animations
5. Opera Mini 4.1 Mobile Phone Browser released
6. Microsoft to make full-scale web browsing mobile this year
7. Silverlight Timetable: 2.0 Coming This Summer
8. Create Distraction-Free, Customized Webapps with Prism
9. Designing for Add-on Performance
10. Opera 9.27 released
11. Companies struggle to remove Apple’s Safari browser
12. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still popular
13. The Complete Field Guide to Testing Firefox 3
14. Apple Safari for iPhone most popular mobile browser in USA
15. Tree is entering lockdown for Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1
16. Why We Need Web Apps on the Desktop
17. about:mozilla - Firefox 3 Beta 5, SUMO Day, Thunderbird Bugdays, Labs updates, and more
18. IE April Security is Now Available
19. IE Automatic Component Activation Now Available
20. IE8 Security Part I: DEP/NX Memory Protection

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The most common web application security weakness is the failure to properly validate input from the client or environment. This weakness leads to almost all of the major vulnerabilities in applications, such as interpreter injection, locale/Unicode attacks, file system attacks and buffer overflows. Data from the client should never be trusted for the client has every possibility to tamper with the data.

In many cases, Encoding has the potential to defuse attacks that rely on lack of input validation. For example, if you use HTML entity encoding on user input before it is sent to a browser, it will prevent most XSS attacks. However, simply preventing attacks is not enough - you must perform Intrusion Detection in your applications. Otherwise, you are allowing attackers to repeatedly attack your application until they find a vulnerability that you haven’t protected against. Detecting attempts to find these weaknesses is a critical protection mechanism.

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1. WebKit gets perfect score on Acid3 web standards - iPhone Safari and S60 web browsers will be even better
2. Q&A with Mozilla’s John Lilly on 10 years of Mozilla and the future of browsers
3. Two vulnerabilities found in Safari browser for Windows
4. Apple’s Safari Security Woes
5. First look: Adobe AIR alpha unleashed for Linux
6. Mozilla wants to put Firefox in the cloud and your pocket
7. Internet Explorer: A Browser Breaks
8. Firefox Gains On Internet Explorer In Businesses
9. Updated IE Mobile to bring “real Internet” to Windows Mobile
10. JavaScript slows down the Internet; WebKit to the rescue
11. IE 8 strict mode doesn’t allow for CSS opacity?
12. The New Opera Mini Arrives - Now 50% Faster Than Before
13. Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download
14. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is here, and reviewed

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