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Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the say-what-now dept.

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.

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  1. I read the report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And it has about as much information as the linked summary does. As in, a few charts with ABSOLUTELY no supporting evidence, citations, or anything at all whatsoever. The web browser section consists of this paragraph:

    Vulnerabilities in Web browsers were concentrated among four popular technologies - Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari. The number of browser vulnerabilities in first half of 2009 comprised about 8 percent of total Web vulnerabilities. Mozilla Firefox had the largest percentage at 44 percent. What was surprising was that the Safari browser had a lot more vulnerabilities at 35 percent this time around mainly due to vulnerabilities reported in iPhone Safari. Internet Explorer was third at 15 percent and Opera with six percent of total browser vulnerabilities.

    About as substantial as the arguments republitards are using right now.

  2. Re:who is cenzic? by TrancePhreak · · Score: -1, Troll

    There were 5 pages of results for Firefox and 2 pages for IE.

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  3. Maybe he is at fault? by hesaigo999ca · · Score: 0, Troll

    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?

  4. open source means vulnerabilities found and fixed by goffster · · Score: 0, Troll

    How many secret unfixed vulnerabilities in IE?

  5. This thing Screams One thing... by IAmAMacOSXAddict · · Score: 0, Troll

    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...

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    MacOSX, because making *NIX better is a lot better than waiting for Micro$loth to fix Windows