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

Maybe he is at fault?

[hesaigo999ca]

Maybe the version of firefox he downloaded to do the testing with, was probably a fake to begin with (maybe he was
part of a man in the middle attack by M$ who wanted to prove that FF was worst, and fed him an owned version of FF)
That would be too obvious, since being a security analyst, he would know to check all checksums of every app, right?

open source means vulnerabilities found and fixed

[goffster]

How many secret unfixed vulnerabilities in IE?

This thing Screams One thing...

[IAmAMacOSXAddict]

They are either a wholy owned subsidiary of Micro$oft...
They want to be a wholy owned subsidiary of Micro$oft...
They are owned by a a wholy owned subsidiary of Micro$oft...
Or lastly they want to be owned a wholy owned subsidiary of Micro$oft...

Basically I consider the whole thing a bunch of FUD...