Microsoft IE8 browser said to boost Internet Security and Anti-Phishing
July 4, 2008
According to Information Week, Internet Explorer 8, “will boost its security and anti-phishing tech in its forthcoming Internet Exploder 8 (IE8). IE8 will have what Microsoft is calling the SmartScreen Filter, an update to the phishing filter already available in IE7, which will include malware defenses. Both Firefox and Opera have similar features.
“The Data Execution Prevention enhancements will help mitigate many memory-related attacks, including buffer overflows (the engine of many memory resident worms). This is very welcome protection against one of the most prevalent exploit vectors.
“In all, the security enhancements in IE8 appear, at first blush, to be an improvement over the already tremendous improvements found in IE7 running on Vista in protected mode.
“They also leapfrog over Mozilla’s security enhancements in Firefox 3. For starters, the anti-phishing technology in Firefox 3, as pointed out earlier by Mitch Wagner, is woefully inadequate. The feature failed more than half the time in testing and could lull more neophyte users into a false sense of security.
“We’ll see how well Microsoft executes on its promises, hopefully, soon.”
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