Future browsers battle phishing

Microsoft and Mozilla’s upcoming new versions to include safety measures.

Pre-release versions of both

Mozilla FireFox 2

and

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

have been unveiled, complete with built-in anti-phishing technology designed to help users spot bogus sites.

Mozilla

‘s system uses a regularly updated blacklist of known phishing sites, and can collaborate with

Google

‘s anti-phishing data. The new

IE

will use a heuristic approach, and includes functionality allowing users to whitelist sites falsely labelled by the new software. The latest

IE

test version, RC1, requires AV software be removed from the test machine, and demands a reboot before it can be used, while the

FireFox

beta 2 can be run alongside the current version.

Read more on

FireFox

‘s anti-phishing features

here

, and see

here

for a document about

Microsoft

‘s new ideas. See also some analysis of

IE7

at

zdnet

.

Posted on 1 September 2006 by

Virus Bulletin