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Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100%

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

An anonymous reader writes Bromium Labs analyzed public vulnerabilities and exploits from the first six months of 2014. The research determined that Internet Explorer vulnerabilities have increased more than 100 percent since 2013, surpassing Java and Flash vulnerabilities. Web browsers have always been a favorite avenue of attack, but we are now seeing that hackers are not only getting better at attacking Internet Explorer, they are doing it more frequently.

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  1. Surprise! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    IE has always been a crappy, insecure browser which doesn't adhere to standards.

    Color me unsurprised.

    It's always been shit, and most of us keep it as the browser of last resort for work stuff which required a crappy, insecure browser which doesn't adhere to standards.

    Piece of crap.

    Microsoft have long since demonstrated they couldn't write a decent browser if Ballmer's life depended on it.

    In fact, some day I home Ballmer's life does depend on IE.