Outdated browser plugins are a popular attack vector on today’s Internet. This can be largely attributed to the fact that no standard exists to keep the plugins up to date. Some companies that develop plugins try to resolve the issue with background processes that are running 24/7 on the user’s system. That’s highly problematic as [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The Mozilla developers introduced the Mozilla Plugin Check back in October 2009 as a way to inform users of the Firefox web browser about outdated plugins. Plugins that are not up to date can pose both a security and stability risk. The plugin check would analyse the plugins of the web browser and compare their [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web browser was open for attacks [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox