![]() ![]() If malicious code has been inserted into the website's content, or in a worst-case scenario, if that website has been specifically designed to host malicious code, then vulnerabilities specific to a particular browser can allow this malicious code to run processes within the browser application in unintended ways (and remember, one of the bits of information that a website collects from a browser communication is the browser's identity- allowing specific vulnerabilities to be exploited). Whenever a browser communicates with a website, the website, as part of that communication, collects some information about the browser (in order to process the formatting of the page to be delivered, if nothing else). The browser may not be aware of any of the breaches above and may show user a safe connection is made. Browser network communications could be intercepted outside the machine.Operating system has a malware running as a background process, which is reading/modifying the browser memory space in privileged mode.Operating system is breached and malware is reading/modifying the browser memory space in privilege mode.Web browsers can be breached in one or more of the following ways: ![]() Security exploits can also take advantage of vulnerabilities (security holes) that are commonly exploited in all browsers (including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Safari ). Security exploits of browsers often use JavaScript, sometimes with cross-site scripting (XSS) with a secondary payload using Adobe Flash. Application of internet security to web browsersīrowser security is the application of Internet security to web browsers in order to protect networked data and computer systems from breaches of privacy or malware. ![]()
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