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.
1 September 2006
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