When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have the new version of the Web HyperText Markup Language, HTML5, foremost on the mind.
"Web apps are becoming incredibly rich with HTML5. The browser is starting to manage full-bore applications and not just Web pages," said Sid Stamm, who works on Firefox security issues for the Mozilla Foundation. Stamm was speaking at the Usenix Security Symposium, held last week in Washington D.C.
"There is a lot of attack surface we need to think about," he said.
On the same week Stamm expressed worry over HTML5, developers of the Opera browser were busy fixing a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be exploited using the HTML5 canvas image-rendering feature.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/203794/
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"Web apps are becoming incredibly rich with HTML5. The browser is starting to manage full-bore applications and not just Web pages," said Sid Stamm, who works on Firefox security issues for the Mozilla Foundation. Stamm was speaking at the Usenix Security Symposium, held last week in Washington D.C.
"There is a lot of attack surface we need to think about," he said.
On the same week Stamm expressed worry over HTML5, developers of the Opera browser were busy fixing a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be exploited using the HTML5 canvas image-rendering feature.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/203794/
