Browser-Based Attacks On The Rise, IT Pros Say

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Browser-based attacks on the up

Browser-based attacks on the up 04/13/2004 07:24 AM
Viral menace recedes, slightly

Beware of Browser-based Attacks

Beware of Browser-based Attacks 04/13/2004 10:06 AM

Browser based attacks increase

Browser based attacks increase 04/13/2004 06:14 AM

Mac Attacks Are on the Rise

Mac Attacks Are on the Rise 03/23/2005 03:22 PM
Wired News Mar 23 2005 6:14PM GMT

Phishing attacks rise in U.S

Phishing attacks rise in U.S 05/06/2004 04:04 PM
ZDNet May 6 2004 7:21PM GMT

Phishing Attacks on the Rise

Phishing Attacks on the Rise 05/19/2004 06:10 PM
The volume of such attacks is growing rapidly, according to anti-fraud firm Cyota, which detected some 450 distinct phishing expeditions in March alone.

Mac hacker attacks may be on the rise

Mac hacker attacks may be on the rise 03/22/2005 07:09 PM
CNN Money Mar 22 2005 11:13PM GMT

Attacks by pirates on the rise

Attacks by pirates on the rise 01/28/2004 12:04 AM
Marine piracy increased sharply last year and Indonesia is the main problem area, a new report says.

U.S. hit by rise in 'phishing' attacks

U.S. hit by rise in 'phishing' attacks 05/07/2004 05:00 AM
ZDNet Australia May 7 2004 8:53AM GMT

Holiday Attacks Target IE Browser, PHP
Servers

Holiday Attacks Target IE Browser, PHP
Servers 12/26/2004 02:34 PM
Over the Christmas weekend, security hackers taunt Microsoft's security efforts with a new Windows proof-of-concept exploit that takes advantage of several unpatched bugs. And a new version of the Santy worm targets PHP scripts.

Cyber attacks on rise: Study

Cyber attacks on rise: Study 05/31/2004 12:37 PM
Sympatico May 31 2004 5:10PM GMT

US admits rise in terror attacks

US admits rise in terror attacks 06/22/2004 03:52 PM
Deaths and injuries caused by terrorism last year were more than double those originally announced, the US says.

Attacks on banks, insurance firms rise

Attacks on banks, insurance firms rise 05/27/2004 12:07 PM

Symantec: Macintosh hacker attacks on
the rise

Symantec: Macintosh hacker attacks on
the rise 03/22/2005 06:51 PM
Many in the Macintosh community have long claimed that the Mac platform has been virtually immune to attack, but that is not necessarily true, according to a new study from security firm Symantec.

Mozilla-based Google browser

Mozilla-based Google browser 09/23/2004 01:08 PM
p2pnet.net Sep 23 2004 4:16PM GMT

How Browser-Based Printing Should Work

How Browser-Based Printing Should Work 01/04/2005 11:29 AM

My post about MeadCo ScriptX and browser-based printing got me thinking that browsers should allow print configuration on a per site basis.

Think about it: you print different vastly things from different sites, and with the proliferation of Web apps, there are so many more times when you need to make a hardcopy of a Web page. But browser-based printing remains stuck back in the late-90s. I haven't seen any page printing advancements built into the browser since IE added Print Preview in 5.5 — and really nothing before that.

How I think it should work —

The user should have a default printing set-up (header, footer, margins, orientation), but should be allowed to override this for certain URL patterns. The user should be able to use wildcards to say, "Everything that starts with this URL pattern should print in landscape with half-inch margins and no header or footer..." You could set this for the "reports" directory of your company's intranet, for example.

Just my two cents. (It's worth a nickel. Keep the change.)

Nokia's Browser Based on Safari

Nokia's Browser Based on Safari 06/17/2005 04:54 PM
Nokia has announced that they are using Apple's WebCore and JavaScriptCore which is at the heart of Apple's Safari Internet browser as the basis for a...

Holiday Attacks Target IE Browser, PHP
Servers (Ziff Davis)

Holiday Attacks Target IE Browser, PHP
Servers (Ziff Davis) 12/26/2004 02:36 PM
Ziff Davis - Over the Christmas weekend, security hackers taunt Microsoft's security efforts with a new Windows proof-of-concept exploit that takes advantage of several unpatched bugs. And a new version of the Santy worm targets PHP scripts.

Attacks on banks, insurance firms rise
worldwide

Attacks on banks, insurance firms rise
worldwide 05/28/2004 04:57 AM
ZDNet Australia May 28 2004 8:31AM GMT

Fingers begin to point as cyber attacks
rise

Fingers begin to point as cyber attacks
rise 05/31/2004 08:34 PM
Sympatico May 31 2004 11:41PM GMT

Macintosh Hacker Attacks Are on the Rise
-Symantec (Reuters)

Macintosh Hacker Attacks Are on the Rise
-Symantec (Reuters) 03/22/2005 06:44 PM
Reuters - Hacker attacks on Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh OS X operating system, thought by many who use the Mac to be virtually immune to attack, are on the rise, according to a report from anti-virus software vendor Symantec Corp .

IE Based Attacks and Phishing Increasing

IE Based Attacks and Phishing Increasing 04/12/2004 04:58 PM
"...the biggest percentage jump of any of the 15 threat categories posed to the nearly 900 IT professionals polled."

Browser-Based Printing with MeadCo
ScriptX

Browser-Based Printing with MeadCo
ScriptX 01/03/2005 07:37 PM

I found a peach of a tool today — it was exactly what I was looking for at exactly the right time.

We have a central database at my company, and the guys have been bugging me to work up some enhanced printing for it. They want to be able to print really top-quality reports — you know, the kind that don't look like they were printed from a Web page so they can give them to clients.

I was fiddling around for a while trying to figure out the best way to do it. The obvious solution was to do server-side PDF creation, but all the tools I found left one thing or another to be desired (another post entirely). I thought about linking tables in Access and running reports there, but then we'd have to buy more Access licenses. I even tried instantiating Word client-side and printing to that, but it got to be a mess pretty quickly.

I finally started tackling the problem with CSS. If you use inches for your unit of measurement, set the overflow on your DIVs to "hidden," and use "page-break-before" strategically, you can get some excellent results.

There is, however, one problem: the client's browser printing setup. They probably have their print headers and footers set to something, their page margins are likely all screwy, and they may try to print to portrait when your report is designed for landscape. What to do?

Enter MeadCo's ScriptX. This is an ActiveX control (yes, IE only) that makes IE print the way you want it to without the user hosing things up.

(With SP2 it prompts for installation, but in an intranet environment you can host the CAB file locally and massage security zones via the IE AK to make it transparent.)

For instance, a "Print Me" button on your page could (1) set the header and footer (or — more likely — clear them), (2) set the page margins to whatever value, (3) set the orientation to portait or landscape, and (4) print the currently loaded page to the default printer with no user involvement or prompt (they'd just see the little icon appear in the status bar and pages would start flying off the printer...). From the user's standpoint, it's like magic.

It gets better — you can have ScriptX print the contents of a FRAME or an IFRAME instead of the page it's running in. So you could hide an IFRAME on the page with a printer-friendly version of the displayed content, then print that when the "Print Me" button is clicked. The user would get something totally different than what they were looking at (even far beyond the capabilities of CSS @media rules).

And all that was with the free version.

The advanced version allows you to set the printer, the page size, the collation values, the page range, the number of copies, etc. You can also query printers on the user's system to find out their capabilities. You could very easily use this to print labels to a little Dymo mailing label printer, for instance.

And here's the really cool part: the object can make an independent HTTP call and print the results. So you could have a user paging through a report, but when they press "Print Me," the object goes back to the server to get the entire report and then prints that.

But wait, there's more [cue cheesy informercial guy here] —

It can be used as a server-side COM object too, so it can print stuff based on data in your Web app. Here's a hypothetical — your help desk Web app could accept a new ticket then print a work order to the laser printer sitting next to the computer geek in the department to which the ticket belongs. Or run a batch of reports in the middle of the night and print them to the printer in the CEO's office so they're waiting for him next to his coffee in the morning.

(Mind you, I haven't bought the full version (haven't had to — the free one does everything I need so far), so some of my ranting here is based on my reading of the docs. I could be off a little.)

Needless to say, I'm thrilled. I'm getting PDF-looking results from HTML and CSS, saving me dozens of hours of work. I predict I'll upgrade to the full version before too long.

Check Point back in browser-based VPN
security

Check Point back in browser-based VPN
security 05/03/2004 06:34 AM
ZDNet May 3 2004 11:11AM GMT

Cisco warns of ICMP-based attacks on
routers

Cisco warns of ICMP-based attacks on
routers 04/14/2005 04:57 AM
In its second IOS security bulletin in a week, Cisco warned that a common management protocol used on the Internet could be used to launch denial-of-service attacks against Cisco routers and other IP-based gear.

NetFlash: Cisco warns of ICMP-based
attacks on routers

NetFlash: Cisco warns of ICMP-based
attacks on routers 04/16/2005 05:07 AM
Cisco revealed yesterday that some versions of its IOS router and switch operating system are vulnerable to attacks based on ICMP. Check our story to see which devices might be vulnerable and to get links to the security bulletins. Cisco warns of ICMP-based attacks on routers http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0413icmp.html?net

Selkirk to Launch First Global
Browser-Based Treasury Management
Solution

Selkirk to Launch First Global
Browser-Based Treasury Management
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Rise of the Kasai(TM) Exclusively for
PlayStation(R)2, Delivers Innovative
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LogicNow Limited Announces a Windows
Supported Version for its Browser Based
Help Desk Solution PerlDesk

LogicNow Limited Announces a Windows
Supported Version for its Browser Based
Help Desk Solution PerlDesk 06/17/2005 04:40 PM
LogicNow have released a Windows Operating System (OS) version of PerlDesk, a leading browser based help desk solution. The Windows version allows users to install PerlDesk for local, intranet or internet use allowing for a fully scalable help desk solution. [PRWEB Jun 17, 2005]

Browser Wars : Wells Fargo Bans Opera
Browser

Browser Wars : Wells Fargo Bans Opera
Browser 02/05/2005 09:42 PM
As of 8am today - Wells Fargo (one of the largest Banks in the United States) began blocking Opera browser from it's online banking.

The browser is dead! Long live the
browser!

The browser is dead! Long live the
browser! 01/02/2004 07:26 PM

Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
extend rally with mo

Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
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Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
per share on 5% revenue rise, cost cuts

Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
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Fertilize Like the Pros!

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CDMA2000 1xEV-DO 3G Help For IT Pros

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Pros and Cons of the Internet

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Pros and cons of using C++ templates

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IT pros consider desktop Linux

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Does The OS Still Matter For Graphics
Pros?

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