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| Five Best Browser Security Extensions Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:59 PM PST Security and privacy are some of the major concerns these days while using internet. The Web browser is one of the most used and exploited application that is used by most of the people as it is considered to be the primary connection to the rest of the internet. Multiple applications may depend on your browser, or elements within your browser, to function and this thing makes the security settings even more important within your browser. To increase your browsing experience, many web applications enable different types of functionalities. But unfortunately, sometimes these functionalities might be unnecessary and may leave you at risk to be attacked. So the safest way is to disable the major of such features, unless or until you find them very necessary. This article is devoted to help you out in understanding the flaws and vulnerabilities of Web browser software and to use your Web browser securely through the best security extensions. Another vector that hackers can use to try to gain access to your personal information, which is your password can be secured by the best web security extension that is LastPass. It is a wonderful password crypt application that is available over a number of different platforms with a huge variety of useful features that includes things like one-click login, synchronization across browsers, automatic form filling, and of course bullet-proof password management/storage.  The WOT extension is a safe surfing tool for your browser. Traffic-light rating symbols of WOT, are powered by a global society of millions of reliable users who have rated millions of websites based on their experiences, depict which websites you can trust for safe surfing, and searching on the web. These rating symbols also help you out in protecting your computer and personal information.  Adblock Plus, which is another great web browser security extension, that allows you to do browsing by preventing annoying and time-consuming ads and provides better browsing experience in both Firefox and Google Chrome. By using this, you will be able to block only what you like, and can always make decision of changing the block status of elements, categories, sites, etc. It also allows you to block ads by setting up filters and using wild cards. It creates a white list, in which the included websites will be deleted from the ads blocking activity.  This is such a great security extension that provides extra safety for your Mozilla/Firefox by allowing JavaScript and Java execution only for trusted domains of your choice. This whitelist based defensive script blocking approach prevents mistreatment of security vulnerabilities with no loss of functionality. And the interesting part is that you can permit JavaScript/Java execution for websites you trust by simply clicking on the NoScript statusbar icon or by using the contextual menu, for easier operation in popup statusbar-less windows.  HTTPS Everywhere is a web browsing security extension specifically for firefox that encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. It is designed to make encryption easier to use on sites offering at least partial SSL support. You would have noticed that many sites on the web offer some restricted support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. But the HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS. A good example which you can see is Twitter in which the username and password input boxes are encrypted, but after that all text coming to or from the server is sent in the clear.   |
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