Keeping track of the latest Internet exploits can be a full time job. If you use RSS feeds to read your news and favorite blogs you'll want to add the SANS Internet Security Storm Center feed to your list. You'll find the link on their home page along with the latest bulletins and information about recent attacks such as the Windows WMF exploit.

The home page has this advice on browser choice:

"Many security professionals will try to avoid Microsoft's Internet Explorer (MSIE). We can see this at isc.sans.org: about 50% of our hits come from MSIE, while less security minded sites get more like 80% of their hits from MSIE.


But are those alternatives safer ? Probably. Are they 100% safe? No, those browsers all have had their share of problems and they all support executing downloaded code and tracking technology (java, javascript, cookies). Add to that vulnerabilites in the code itself and yoou should not feel safe surfing with any of these browsers to any hacker's website. Even the tools used to gather known malicious content such as wget and lynx have been suffering from vulnerabilities."