{"id":93,"date":"2013-01-13T13:18:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T19:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2019-08-16T07:43:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:43:05","slug":"safety-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/13\/safety-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the readers of this blog read it in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_browser\">browser<\/a>. Modern browsers are incredibly powerful and are literally computers within computers. Unfortunately, this means that the same kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malware\">malware<\/a> that haunts the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operating_system\">operating system<\/a> on which a browser runs can do the same in the browser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Java_computer_language\">Java<\/a>, a computer language that was designed to run on different operating systems, was a natural fit for browsers. It also turns out to be a perfect way to introduce malware, so much so that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kb.cert.org\/vuls\/id\/625617\">Department of Homeland Security recently recommended<\/a> that it be disabled in your browser. How do you do that? <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5975475\/how-to-disable-java-in-your-browser\">Gizmodo has a great guide<\/a> for all of the popular browsers. Check it out, and safe browsing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the readers of this blog read it in a browser. Modern browsers are incredibly powerful and are literally computers within computers. Unfortunately, this means that the same kind of malware that haunts the operating system on which a browser runs can do the same in the browser. Java, a computer language that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[196,202,203,201,200,198,204,205,199,206,197],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuts-and-bolts","tag-browser","tag-chrome","tag-chromium","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-firefox","tag-internet","tag-java","tag-malware","tag-safari","tag-virus","tag-world-wide-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}