iPhone Gets New Browser Options

By : Daniel Ionescu

New Web browsers for the iPhone started appearing in Apple's App Store, contrary to the company's previous policy of denying applications that duplicate functionality of its own software. Four new Web browser implementations became available over the last day in the App store. Still, other popular browsers are not expected to follow suit.

Although Apple didn't officially acknowledge dropping its functionality duplication policy, four new Web browsers for the iPhone became available yesterday, bringing new features such as tabs and private browsing. However, the new browsers are just different user interface implementations of the built-in iPhone rendering engine - WebKit. So basically, the code in the new apps rendering the web pages is still Apple's.


The new so called Web browsers range in price from free to $1.99 and bring some features missing from Apple's Safari App. Edge browser (pictured above), a free app, removes Safari's address and navigation bars, leaving more screen real estate for the page you are browsing. Another browser, WebMate:Tabbed Browser ($0.99), as the name suggests, brings tabbed browsing to the iPhone by queuing up all the links you click on and then displaying them in an orderly fashion. The other two browsers, Incognito and Shaking Web (both $1.99), offer untraceable browsing and respectively compensate the small hand shaking for easier reading with the help of a sophisticated algorithm.

Apple has been criticized before for group delays of certain application categories, such as the fart generators, and it seems that even the browsers in discussion have been submitted to the App Store from as early as October last year. Regardless, the new apps are a step ahead for Apple in becoming a more open platform for web browser developers, even though we shouldn't expect other big players such as Firefox or Opera being allowed to release browsers featuring their own rendering engines for the iPhone.

source : http://www.pcworld.com

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Top 10 security predictions for 2009 Part. 2

By Asavin Wattanajantra

More legitimate website hacking

It arose as a big problem in 2008 and is sure to continue next year, as criminals realise that hacking a legitimate website is a great way to persuade users to click and downloads malicious files.

Many users are still unfamiliar with web-based malware and 2009 could a boom year as cybercriminals look to capitalise on this ignorance. It is a very recent evolution to exploit flaws in browsers and web servers, and new toolkits are now constantly being made to take advantage.


The fact that these toolkits often don’t need users to have a great technical knowledge lowers the barrier for entry for cybercriminals and pushes the threat level even higher than before.

Unemployment creates more cybercriminals

The credit crunch will affect the security landscape in a number of ways. One of the scariest prospects is that the economic downturn will make it tempting for unemployed IT workers to use their technical knowledge to commit internet crime.

It’s a very lucrative business - and as mentioned before - the growth of malware-as-a-service will make it very easy for people to make money on the web, even if they lack the right technical knowledge.

It could also be a problem in developing countries, as the lack of IT jobs could force qualified and skilled technical workers into the arms of criminal gangs, who will exploit their skills in aid of making money over the web.

Security budgets unlikely to grow

Although the threats keep multiplying, most would agree that in the current economic climate, budgets are unlikely to grow significantly.

This means that there will be more consolidation in the security field and means that instead of multiple boxes carrying out single functions, it will be consolidated into single boxes.

In 2008 this has already been happening, but with budgetary pressures there is no doubt this will accelerate.

It will also be interesting to see how the new focus on data security will affect the way businesses work, and whether there will be a change of focus in security to securing the data, rather than protecting the network.

Mobile computing hacks

The growth in popularity of smartphones will make them a bigger target to criminals as they will not have the security protection that PCs have had for years.

Applications and associated data will be accessed from anywhere and make them a big target for hackers. IT administrators need to be on their guard as these threats will have multiple points of entry, targeting different devices and applications.

This is made even more important by the fact that the use of mobile internet will have increased significantly by the end of 2009.

The value of the data that new sophisticated phones will carry will mean that subscribers will expect mobile operators to take greater security measures to protect personal data, especially when mobile commerce takes off.

The new generation of botnets

At the end of 2008 many of the biggest botnets were taken down with the closing of the McColo server. MessageLabs predicted that these will find new hosting services in countries such as Russia or China, improving botnet technology.

A particular sophisticated type of botnet that was described takes the form of hypervisor technology, with malware existing as a virtualisation layer running directly on the hardware and incorporating key operating system calls.

The “real” operating system remains unaware of the existence of underlying malware controlling the computer. Particularly technical attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting will also continue, and become more commonplace in 2009.

Cyber hacking on virtual worlds

Like social networking, hackers are likely to move away from the traditional forms of email spamming and move towards the potential goldmine of virtual worlds.

This could be gaming universes like World of Warcraft, or more social reality-based worlds like Second Life, where stolen virtual goods could be sold for real hard cash.

Users are often more relaxed about their personal details in online worlds, and this means that there could be a good opportunity for criminals to create technology which steal this data.

The increasing use of virtual worlds by businesses will also be a factor, as the value of data that these worlds will carry may grow significantly. This will make it more profitable, and therefore attract more criminals.

Reputation hijacking flourishes

The vulnerability in the design of the Domain Name System (DNS) found by Dan Kaminsky could in theory poison a server’s cache causing people sending emails or requesting a website to be given the wrong IP address.

This could mean victims are sent to a fake website which is looking for personal details, but looks perfectly real. If organised gangs manage to exploit this DNS vulnerability it could mean a whole different set of problems in 2009.

There was a multi-vendor patch deployed in August to protect servers from attack, but it has been made clear that the vulnerability had only been slowed down – not eliminated.

source : www.itpro.co.uk

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Overview of Web Technology Trends 2009

Mobile Application
2008, a year early development of the mobile platform, where developers start saw the mobile application as a major business fields and potentially large. See just how gilanya iphone developer growing rapidly, as well as android, a mobile operating system licensed open source that initiated google. Both trends are opening roads into how a future mobile application will be developed. Tentunnya interesting that the more mobile applications based on open source in 2009. 2009 likely will be the year his mobile application.


Web Everywhere
web now not again become the property of the browser running on the desktop, but now the web has become an application 'only my imagination we can limit' which can be accessed from anywhere and by anyone. Start from the traditional to the browser with various gadgets. Web has evolved from a simple form of information originally inter-related, be content that is developing its own high due to the social networking site with the application that will replace traditional desktop applications. 2009, the web will be far more developed.

Web & Desktop
When the boundaries between web applications and desktop applications increasingly thin and mingled with each other. This caused the development of web teknolog own tape and point of the fast internet (not yet in Indonesia), able to combine between desktop applications and web into one unit. Start from the kind of proprietary technology to Adobe Air-based open-source technology such as Prism and TitaniumApp.

How in Indonesia?
Without Internet access, all over the technology will not run. I often hear that the development of internet users in Indonesia at this very quickly. According to my statement is not wrong but also not correct. May be more appropriate if the said Internet users in the 'Java for middle and the current is very fast. See our only brother brother outside Java is still relatively difficult to get access to the Internet a cheap and reliable. Internet technology is developing in Java seputaran and several large cities only.

However, we may think of it negative, fast or slow, however how, and whatever the result, in 2009 hopefully that reliable Internet access can also be enjoyed not only for the people of Java, but most evenly across the country. Indonesia is not merely question, the potential outside Java is very large and with the Internet access cheap and reliable in all india of course will have a positive effect quickly, as soon as the development of technology in 2009. nice!

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Google android Circulation is on the internet

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Google android Circulation is on the internet
While Google's open secret about the content of their mobile phone femonemal in November last year, all fussy. Although the phone is a long-awaited, this search engine was to introduce an open source operating system Linux-based navigation and Internet featurefeature better. Although the operating system called Android, which is intended to finish at the end of the year later, preversinya already circulating on the Internet. CHIP also has been trying to install and Android. To test this, we install the Alpha version of the Android smartphone HTC Kaiser. Besides Google, the Open Handset Alliance also has a mobile phone manufacturer HTC, which are developing the system. This is easier for other programmers can do customize the latest HTC mobile phone. Currently, the Android not replace the old Windows Mobile. GoogleSystem dibooting such as a program from Windows. When tried, there is no problem and is relatively easy. Graphical interface that is better simply operated on the prime touchscreen. Responnya quickly and there is no delay. Indeed, the performance of integrated software still shows fasefase early development. CHIP still can not use the phone, browser, or Google Maps. Similarly with the WLAN chipset on the phone, still has not been detected. In addition, the operating system can only disoft reset so that only less convenient.
Conclusion: Currently, the new Android interface that gives the impression that good. Development is still in the stage to fight. Firmware revisions appear almost every week. Google and its partners launched Android to the American market in 2008, before Windows Mobile 7 released. Info: forum.xda-developers.com

Source: Magazines chip Ed. 08/2008

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