The first thing most of you do every morning is to open the [Clipperz password manager][home] and start your daily routine by quickly accessing your online services. Just one click on a “direct login” link and you are logged in and, depending on your browser settings, each click will open a new window or a new tab. Unless you are using Safari …

Clipperz online password manager is adding some cool new features. Before officially announcing them I’m glad to confirm what some of our users have already discovered: Clipperz does support Safari both on Macs and PCs!

Browsers did not anticipate the rapid surge of Ajax applications and they are increasingly slow to render Ajax-ed websites. They used to be snappy and responsive, now it’s quite easy to find yourself typing in a text area at the amazing speed of 1 character per second. A new quad-core processor or the latest version of your favorite OS can do nothing to change this.

Every web developer knows that IE is a wild beast! We finally tamed it! Starting yesterday Clipperz online password manager supports Firefox, Opera and eventually Microsoft Internet Explorer.

I wouldn’t recommend to use your browser as password manager. It’s not just a matter of security, but mostly of convenience.

Yesterday Microsoft officially announced Extended Validation SSL support in IE7 at the RSA show, but already some of these new certificates started appearing few weeks ago. An Extended Validation certificate is just like a regular SSL certificate, but with stricter issuing criteria.

Everybody has probably heard [about this][1] before, but it’s worth repeating: Firefox’s storage of passwords is not secure!

There are several banks that use non-SSL login pages. This does not mean they are sending your credentials in the clear, but the user has no way to tell if the login form is legit or spoofed. Alun Jones moves from the findings of Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the SANS Institute, to raise an alarm on this overlooked problem: how secure is the web form you are filling in?

Dynamic Security Skins or DSS emerged about one year ago and sparked some debate on several places. Some were critics of DSS because its effectiveness depended upon a widespread adoption both from browser developers and web site owners. It was unlikely and it has not happened yet.

Having almost limitless resources does not mean you can waste them. The calculator feature of Google web search is a tiny, perfect example of a such a waste. Every time you write something like 1500/1.208 into the search field of Google, the string is sent over to a Google server, a Google CPU computes the results and send it back to you.