Google Releases a One-Stop Reference Source to Browser Security

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Google Releases a One-Stop Reference Source to Browser Security

By CircleID Reporter
December 11, 2008, 1:13 am PST Views: 4,627 Add Comment

Today via its Online Security Blog, Google announced the release of its Browser Security Handbook aimed at providing web application developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers a “one-stop reference” to critical security attributes of modern web browsers. “Insufficient understanding of these often poorly-documented characteristics is a major contributing factor to the prevalence of several classes of security vulnerabilities,” says the introduction to the 60-page document.

Michael Zalewski, from Google’s Security Team writes: “Many people view the task of writing secure web applications as a very complex challenge - in part because of the inherent shortcomings of technologies such as HTTP, HTML, or Javascript, and in part because of the subtle differences and unexpected interactions between various browser security mechanisms. ... In hopes of helping to make the Web a safer place, we decided to release our Browser Security Handbook to the general public. This 60-page document provides a comprehensive comparison of a broad set of security features and characteristics in commonly used browsers, along with (hopefully) useful commentary and implementation tips for application developers who need to rely on these mechanisms, as well as engineering teams working on future browser-side security enhancements.”

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