A 3-year-old startup called Overtis launched a browser ... plug-in handles authentication to the Web application, an employee must have it in order to get access. The plug-in would ensure, for ...

In June, for example, more than 10,000 compromised sites, many of them hosted in Italy, were using Mpack to deliver multiple browser-based exploits, most designed to take advantage of plug-in bugs.

Third-party plug-ins can be a real pain in the back for browser developers. Security holes constantly show up in Adobe Flash and Reader, for example, leaving those running out-of-date versions ...

Okay, maybe the Hangouts issue was worse, but either way—why couldn’t my Mac handle updating browser plug ... of Silverlight, for example, and I saw both that plug-in and the Google plug ...