Look like Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates can be broken and no longer safe now days.

The trick in the latest type of attack is that all a criminal would need to do is put the name of a legitimate Web site before that null character, and the browser will believe that the site it’s visiting – which is under the criminal’s control – is legitimate.

The criminal could then forward the traffic onto the legitimate site and spy on everything the victim does on that site.

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In a recent unpredicted move, Microsoft, the world largest software maker said that it will give Europeans a choice on web browser for new computers running Windows Seven, the company’s latest upcoming operating system.

The European Commission has so far slapped fines totalling €1.68 billion ($2.9 billion) on the US software giant for infringing EU antitrust rules.

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Google recently announced the new Google Chrome Operating System that it plans to develop for small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.

In its official blog, Google said that Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and they are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year.

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Accusing Microsoft of unfairly sidelining competitors, Google said on Tuesday that it would apply to join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft over the company’s Web browser.

The case, initiated by the E.U. in January, accused Microsoft of illegally tying Internet Explorer to Windows to stifle competition in the browser market, breathing new life into issues that were at the core of the landmark Department of Justice antitrust suit against Microsoft a decade ago. The E.U. acted after it received a complaint from Opera, an Oslo-based maker of a competing browser. Mozilla, which makes the Firefox browser, applied to join the case earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »

Mozilla’s Web browsers now command 8.69 percent of the global browser market, according to a recent survey by Dutch analytics company OneStat.com.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still dominates the market, with a hefty 86.63 percent of the market, with Apple’s Safari browser trailing in third place with 1.26 percent of the market. Opera alone commands about 1.03 percent, and Netscape has about 1.08 percent.

Other studies have confirmed OneStat’s findings. In a recent report, Janco Associates found that Firefox is now the browser of choice for 10 percent of business users, with IE at 83.07 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

Opera Thursday unveiled a compression service it said speeds up browsing the Web on its mobile and desktop browsers.

Opera Turbo compresses the bandwidth of text and data files on Web sites by 80 percent, the company said. It is now available to business customers, such as mobile handset providers and network operators, through the Opera Desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Devices software development kits, so they can build the service into browsers on PCs and mobile devices.

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