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60% of UK website tests revealed Internet encryption and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

10th April 2008 60% of web application tests performed for UK organisations showed that their websites contain weak encryption or cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities Read More

Demilitarised Zone most secure option for BlackBerry device

28th February 2008 Recent BlackBerry testing by IT security consultancy, NTA Monitor, has revealed that organisations are still not configuring these mobile devices correctly Read More

Retailers should put security top of their Christmas list

13th November 2007 With British consumers spending more than £6.6 billion online in the last two months of last year, the 2007 festive season is set to be one of great cheer for online retailers Read More

Businesses warned not to have skeletons in cupboards

13th November 2007 For many organisations, the festive season is an opportunity to heave a corporate sigh of relief and enjoy the brief respite in frenetic business activity as countless people all over the world, go home to celebrate Christmas Read More
Date: 2nd October 2006
Risk: Informational

A new web browser is available that does not track users' searches or utilise auto-complete

Browzar has suffered from a barrage of criticism, mainly because sponsored links and natural results were displayed together, without distinguishing between them. This has now been changed and sponsored links appear in a different colour with 'sponsored results' displayed beneath them. It is anticipated that the next version will include tabbed browsing and may have the facility to personalise the homepage, which the current version does not have.

According to Browzar's website: "Browzar is an IE shell browser that allows you to surf the internet with privacy. It doesn't save any cache, history, cookies or use auto-complete, it protects your privacy while you are online.

The Browzar start page contains a search box that allows you to search the internet but you are under no obligation to use our search engine and are free to go directly to the search engine of your choice.

Sometimes we need to view websites or search privately, especially if you share a computer. Browzar does not save any cache, history, cookies or use auto-complete and gives us the freedom to surf and search the internet in private simply, and with no fuss."

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