Should web browser security be rethought?
usrbingeek | Aug 05, 2008 | 0 comments
Andrew Garcia has written an interesting piece for eWeek that makes a strong argument for changing web browser’s security practices and technology to keep computers safe from web-borne threats.
If the legitimate Web sites a user visits regularly, such as banks, merchants or social networks, can no longer be trusted to be clean, the old “spam-oriented” rule—not clicking on links in e-mail—becomes less relevant.
Indeed, when legitimate Web sites are the major source of malware, and users cannot readily tell whether a site is trustworthy by looking at it, there needs to be a technological solution to fill the breach and provide some assurance to users that the sites they visit are safe at this very moment—not five months ago, not an hour ago, but now.
Security providers have been trying out many new technologies to combat the problem of Web threats, as older, signature-based detections of the file system performed by anti-virus platforms have proven ineffective against new types of threats.
Indeed, when legitimate Web sites are the major source of malware, and users cannot readily tell whether a site is trustworthy by looking at it, there needs to be a technological solution to fill the breach and provide some assurance to users that the sites they visit are safe at this very moment—not five months ago, not an hour ago, but now.
Security providers have been trying out many new technologies to combat the problem of Web threats, as older, signature-based detections of the file system performed by anti-virus platforms have proven ineffective against new types of threats.
Should web browsers be changed to combat this threat? What do you think?
[Rethinking Web Browser Security]
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