Perspectives is a research project to improve SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-path Network Probing by researchers of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. The title of their research surely sounds scary for many Internet users but it basically means that they have created a method to authentic hosts securely by pulling their information [...]

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Removing traces of just one website that you have been visiting is quite some task. It requires knowledge of the storage locations of the information in Firefox. An easier way to remove traces of an active website is to use the Firefox add-on Close and Forget.
Close and Forget provides two features. The first is to [...]

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Man the Firefox development team is releasing new Firefox 2 versions like crazy. Firefox 2.0.0.16 is the latest Firefox 2 release and a recommended update for everyone that is still running version 2 of the popular browser.
The update is a security update that fixes two critical security vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution and the [...]

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Firefox 3 introduced a new coloring scheme and design for secure websites. You might remember that Firefox 2 displayed a yellow url bar when the user was accessing a https site. This changed drastically in Firefox 3 which is now displaying blue, yellow and green colors in the favicon area on the left side of [...]

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FireCAT (Firefox Catalog of Auditing exTension) is a mindmap of the most efficient security auditing extensions for Firefox. This mindmap is constantly updated to update existing add-ons and add new extensions that might prove useful for security professionals but also interested users.
FireCAT 1.4 is currently available for download as a browsable html file or pdf [...]

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