Browser vulnerabilities are nothing new, and they are constantly popping up no matter what software you're using. Today, however, there's an especially eerie one that Ghacks found which currently affects almost all versions of Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8. It's capable of recording all of your keystrokes even after you've left the site that you were visiting.

Update (6/27/2008 @ 1:34PM CST): As some commenters have pointed out this vulnerability does affect Firefox 3

Mozilla has got to be happy that they're Firefox 3 web browser has received over 12 million downloads since Tuesday, but it took only five hours for the browser's first critical vulnerability to be discovered. Luckily details about the vulnerability have not been made public, and Mozilla has said that there's no known exploit for the bug at this time.

At this point very little is known

I think it's safe to say that a lot of Firefox users associate the browser with security. It may normally keep you out of harms way, but that's not the case if you downloaded the Vietnamese language pack after February 18, 2008. It turns out that Mozilla released a copy of that particular language pack which was modified by a virus on their system. Since November

Jeff Jones, the Security Strategy Director for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, has assembled a 1-year analysis of Vista's vulnerabilities. In his 6-month review Vista came out on top when pitted up against other operating systems, and stretching the timeline out over a 1-year period didn't yield any different results.

In his report he wanted to clarify that he is not reviewing the actual security of an operating system, and is just using vulnerability reports

One of the features that I use quite often in Gmail is the filter list. With filters I'm able to forward, apply labels, and delete/archive emails as they come in. Unfortunately this was also a source for hackers to wreak havoc on you.

As it turns out new filters could previously be added simply by visiting an unsuspecting website. The malicious site can create filters

George Ou, a writer over at ZDNet, will surely be getting some fan hate mail with his latest work of art. He was curious as to how Windows stacked up against Mac OS X in terms of the number of vulnerabilities, and using data from the impartial Secunia he managed to gather some rather interesting facts to say the least.

He counted up how many vulnerabilities there have been for Mac OS X

Mozilla has posted Firefox 2.0.0.7 which is an extremely critical update for all Firefox users out there. There is only one thing that has been fixed, but it's a QuickTime vulnerability that could compromise Firefox and your computer.

Petko D. Petkov was the person who found the exploit, and says that he discovered it nearly a year ago. At the time he had actually