Chapter 4

Security Issues with Web Browsers

Information in this chapter:

ent What is Being Exposed?

In Chapter 3 we discussed five of the major browsers those being Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari browser and Opera. The goal of the chapter was to discuss what is offered in each browser and how they stack up against one another in the marketplace. As we saw each browser has features that are common and others that are unique to it and it alone. These features make each browser unique and in some cases, the ones we are concerned about in this text, make the browser more secure. In this chapter we will discuss what can make a browser ...

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