Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close

An anonymous reader writes "Cenzic released its report revealing the most prominent types of Web application vulnerabilities for the first half of 2009. The report identified over 3,100 total vulnerabilities, which is a 10 percent increase in Web application vulnerabilities compared to the second half of 2008. Among Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox had the largest percentage of Web vulnerabilities, followed by Apple Safari, whose browser showed a vast increase in exploits, due to vulnerabilities reported in the Safari iPhone browser." It seems a bit surprising to me that this study shows that only 15% of vulnerabilities are in IE.

Comments

ActiveX

[sam0737]

...I didn't RTFA (oh yeah who does today?) but I guess they forgot to count the vulnerability of all the ActiveX published.

Obviously a Microsoft funded study

[gVibe]

There is no way in hell I would believe that IE has less vulnerabilities than Firefox or Safari (Safari on Windows probable). Web application or not, Firefox will never fall to the likes of IE.

When will these companies ever stop spinning data in favor of who pays them the most? They have to know we are on to them and don't believe one bit of the hype they are spewing.

Re:I wonder

[Nicolay77]

It doesn't really matter. Firefox embraces the insecurity of plugins by design. In fact, its users swear by the plugins feature.

Firefox advocates can't include plugins when it sounds like a good idea and ignore them when it's convenient.

Re:I wonder

[AnotherUsername]

Well, see, if Cenzic is tied to Microsoft, then it fits the Anti-Microsoft argument for the report being flawed. So, of course he must be! Don't you get it? Windows isn't Linux! Therefore, Cenzic publishing a report that isn't completely critical of everything that is Microsoft must mean that he is tied financially to Microsoft!

Basically, it is just FOSS FUD.