Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Sep 2006 15:53 UTC, submitted by Jeff
Hackers are hitting paydirt in their search for browser bugs. According to Symantec's twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, hackers found 47 bugs in Mozilla's open-source browsers and 38 bugs in Internet Explorer during the first six months of this year. That's up significantly from the 17 Mozilla and 25 IE bugs found in the previous six months. Even Apple's Safari browser saw its bugs double, jumping from six in the last half of 2005 to 12 in the first half of 2006. Opera was the only browser tracked by Symantec that saw the number of vulnerabilities decline, but not by much. Opera bugs dropped from nine to seven during the period.
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RE[2]: Numbers don't count
by CowMan on Tue 26th Sep 2006 20:22
in reply to "RE: Numbers don't count"
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They could prevent the flaws in code before it gets to the wild, and they can offer patches through Windows Update, without adding a new UI blatantly designed to compete against these other companies.
Which are probably a sore-point for MS, in that they even exist, in the first place. Companies who exist for no other reason than your product is flawed. :S
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2006-01-08
When I read about the European Comission(?) warning Microsoft to not block these anti-ms-bugs firms out, I got puzzled. If Microsoft was able to produce a secure OS, what would they do? What if Windows got rid of virus and their firewall (or services disabled) worked as it should (and all the ports were documented)?
They created the business for these companies, what now? Aren't they cornered?
Edited 2006-09-25 16:27