Attacks On The Netscape Browser

Jim Roskind

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

The Netscape Communicator client was deployed on millions of desktops. It was also subject to attacks that attempted to gainunauthorized access to data on the client's computers, if not complete control of the computer. This talk discusses a broad range of examples of attacks that have been proposed against the Communicator application along with ways that the application evolved to block them