Every year, researchers offer us their assistance to help enhance the security of our websites. We would like to thank those who discovered and reported security issues in 2018. EDIT: The list of researchers was moved to our new site, the Hall of Fame. Visit this site to see the names of people who have...

There is a lot of uncertainty right now about the impact of the hardware security issue named Meltdown. There will be a scheduled release of Opera which will contain a first set of workarounds as soon as the browser is properly tested and ready for release. This will most likely be at the end of...

Domains are an integral part of the internet. Similar to how people write different languages using different characters or scripts, domain names can be composed of various scripts in whole or in part, and are called Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). It is possible to create labels which look similar to combining characters from different scripts....

Recently, a collection of documents was released online, which was claimed to have originated with a major World power. The documents listed hacking vectors that could be used to inject code into major operating systems and numerous popular applications. Opera was no exception, with a couple of mentions on the list. The attacks mentioned for...

We would like to thank the researchers who have offered us their assistance throughout the year, to help enhance the security of our websites. Special mention goes to those who discover and report security issues: Johnny Nipper Mehmet Caner Köroglu of InnoveraBT Sadik Shaikh We would also like to take the opportunity to thank researchers...

During the past few days some of our users have contacted us raising the concern that the Qihoo 360 Total Security anti-virus software has been labelling the Opera installer executable for Windows as some form of malware (HEUR/QVM11.1.0000.Malware.Gen). The installer setup that we provide at opera.com is digitially signed by us, and we can assure...