Secure browsers

DESPITE ALL THE efforts of legitimate software vendors, of governments and law enforcement, and an increasingly educated populace, somehow the internet is only getting more dangerous. The traditional threats, like malware and ransomware, are still around, but new ones like formjacking and cryptojacking have emerged. In 2018, for example, Symantec reported that it blocked four times as many cryptojacking attacks as the previous year.

Cryptojacking, for those unfamiliar, is where the criminal uses a piece of web page code to take over your system and use it for cryptocurrency mining.

For a few years now, there has been something of a boutique business for “secure” browsers. These are specialised browsers with the security settings cranked up to 11, designed to ensure