IE Unsafe for 98% of 2004

Thursday, Mar. 24 2005 | Author: Scrivs

This is just plain funny.

Firefox experienced the shortest periods of vulnerability due to the development model of Firefox. As for IE…

By comparison, the scanner showed Microsoft’s IE enjoyed only seven days without being subject to any known vulnerabilities, between 12 and 19 October.

Even more interesting is that security experts were more willing to report vulnerabilities to the Mozilla organization than they were to Microsoft simply based on the way they are treated.

It pays to be nice.

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One Response for "IE Unsafe for 98% of 2004"

Joe Maddalone

March 25th, 2005 at 3:19 am
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MARCH 21, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The growing popularity of Mozilla-based Web browsers appears to be attracting the attention of the malicious hacking community.

Between July 1, 2004, and Dec. 31, 2004, the number of documented vulnerabilities affecting the Mozilla browser and Mozilla’s Firefox browser was higher than the number of vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, according to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec Corp released today.