High technology news

Norwegian Opera Software ASA, which has developed the well known Opera browser, has come out with a new version of its browser for mobile phones, Opera Mini 3.0. The company said the new browser can be used in a mobile phone for practically all browsing functions, including uploading pictures and video clips and accessing emails as well undertaking online transactions.

The browser is optimized to cut down on the size of data transferred to the mobile phone, which has been possible through server-side data compression process. This compression enables the processing of web pages on even basic phones and brings down the costs involved in data transfer for subscribers with limited plans.
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Frequent visitors to blogs and Internet forums may be particularly at risk of identity theft due to an exploit that prompts the Firefox and Internet Explorer password managers to give away their protected information. Both Mozilla and Microsoft have acknowledged the problem and are working on fixes.

A software security researcher has warned that the password manager features of Mozilla’s open source Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer (IE) Web browsers could be exploited, placing unsuspecting users at risk.

Users of Firefox or Explorer, both of which may be vulnerable to the attack known as “Reverse Cross Site Request” (RCSR), are not fooled directly by the password theft exploit. (more…)