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How to Enhance Security Measures on Your Web Browsers

Stop threats before they can start with these tips

Browsers are the primary point of access to the World Wide Web. Every time you access the Internet, your browsers are exposed to potential online attacks. Browsers often provide an easy way for unauthorized users or hackers to access your private data, trace your daily activities or access your system directly.

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Overview of Browser Security

Your browser is an entry point for all malware or suspicious activities. It also means that your browser is vulnerable to attacks. Hackers or malware producers identify various loopholes to exploit browser functionalities and sneak malware onto your system.

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Browser Sandboxing: the Rise of Seatbelt

Modern browsers use a wide range of techniques to attempt to protect the underlying operating system from browser application level compromise. This, not surprisingly, is very difficult to do today.

The browser you're using to read this is essentially a virtualized computer that runs at the user level of your computer. It has networking capabilities built in via WebSockets and asynchronous processing via Web Workers. It has persistent storage. All of this is built into the browser itself, which is used to load arbitrary and provider-defined content from around the world. Seriously — open a mainstream news site like Al Jazeera or CNN with developer tooling enabled and take a look at the network traffic. Visiting that one site results in your browser firing off hundred(s) of requests to a wide range of sites. And many of those sites you've probably never heard of.