May 4th 2006
Security Now 38
Browser Security
Hosted by
Steve Gibson,
Leo Laporte
The most useful program on your computer is also the most dangerous. This week, a look at browser security...
Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.
Why is Internet Explorer so insecure? What can you do to secure it? And why is it so hard to make a secure browser? Steve talks about security policy vs. browser flaws, how he uses IE safely, and why Java and Javascript are inherently more secure than ActiveScript and ActiveX.