Google chrome is one of the best and safe web browser that has multiple features and provides security for online browsing, however you must not depends on browser side security you must have some extra extensions and add ons that will enhance your online security and protect your information from hackers.
Just like Firefox, you can add extensions on google chrome, as discussed the best chrome extensions for security professional and ethical hacker. In this article I will show you some extensions that are really helpful to enhance online security.
Web of Trust Extension
Web of trust is the best extensions ever that provides the maximum security, this extension let you know about the website that you are visiting the website is safe for you or not. Millions of user provide the rating for the specific website.
AdBlock
Adblock is a chrome extension that provide you an option to block ads on all the websites even facebook and youtube. What is the benefit? Adblock basically a best extension that safe your information from Malware ad injection a technique to steal confidential information.
McAfee's SiteAdvisor Chrome Extension
It is very similar to WOT (web of trust) because it will give safety ratings for websites, this extension will warn you before you open threat sites. If you choose not to load the exploit url(Options page), it will be automatically re-directed to Siteadvisor, where you can see the full details about the website you are about to visit.
KB SSL Enforcer
If you want to secure your information from the hacking attack like sniffing than you must have KB SSL Enforcer extension. This extension enforces encryption for websites that support it as much as currently possible in Chrome. This gives you added security and privacy for your browsing automatically and transparently. This is the best extension to fight against firesheep.
Click & Clean
As the name suggest click and clean your browsing history, typed URLs, Flash cookies, all traces of your online activity to protect your privacy. It has some more features like it can scan your computer for Malware and it can clean your hard disk like Ccleaner.
Secbrowsing
Make sure that you are using update plug ins to secure your browser side exploitation attack, Secbrowsing is the extension that is used for this purpose. It Periodically checks that all your plugins are up-to-date.
PasswordFail Extension
Make sure that you are using secure channel (SSL) but how to check it. PasswordFail is the extension for this purpose, it Warns the user if the website being used stores their passwords in plain text form.
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Posted: 11 Aug 2011 07:27 AM PDT
The importance of secure socket layer is not a hidden truth on the Internet, SSL or secure socket layer provides an extra level of security for the confidential information. Now a days every important websites like E-commerce websites including online transactions are using SSL for user information security. If you dont have any idea about SSL than you can learn secure socket layer from our previous discussion.
What is PolarSSL
There are so many SSL services available on the Internet, but what makes PolarSSL a little different from others? The answer is simple and that PolarSSL is a light-weight open source cryptographic and SSL/TLS library written in C. PolarSSL is licensed according to the dual licensing model, making it available under the open source GPL version 2 as well as a commercial license.
It is easy to develop on an application that provides cryptographic facility between the user and the server. PolarSSL is written with embedded systems in mind and has been ported to a large number of environments, including Windows (32 and 64 bit), Linux, UNIXes, BSD's, OpenWRT, iPhone(iOS), XBox, Android and more. Chipsets supported includeIntel, ARM, PowerPC, MIPS and Motorola 68000.
Features
- Small memory footprint
- Clean and simple API for integration
- Loose coupling of cryptographic code.
- Symmetric encryption algorithms: AES, Triple-DES, DES, ARC4, Camellia, XTEA
- Hash algorithms: MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
- HAVEGE random number generator
- RSA with PKCS#1 v1.5 and PKCS#1 v2.1 padding
- SSL version 3, TLS version 1.0 and TLS version 1.1 client support
- X.509 certificate and CRL reading from memory or disk in PEM and DER formats
- Support for PKCS#11 interfacing, using the OpenSC PKCS#11 helper library
- Over 1600 validation, regression and code coverage tests
- Example applications
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However SSL provides some extra security and protection but as a user you must care about your information because there are different techniques available to break and crack SSL. An attacker might use backtrack like backtrack 5 to crack SSL.
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