December 15, 2009

- Firefox has most errors

During the first six months stood Firefox for 44 percent of all security flaws in web browsers. The company Cenzic said , Computer World's international news service Write this.

Apple and Internet Explorer are respectively second and third in the number of security holes, the company writes in a report.
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So, how have they count Security holes?

- It's not rocket science. We have used several databases, including CVE, to count the number of known vulnerabilities, "said Lars Ewe, security manager at the company.

Small notice requirements

The census is included so-called "zero day bugs, holes that are not patched at the time the code to exploit the hole are used.

And this counting show that Firefox has 44 percent error, Safari has 35 and Internet Explorer has 15, Norwegian Opera accounts for six percent of the errors.

Ewe stressed that this point not necessarily something to shout out about to warn.

- When all is said and done, the number of vulnerabilities is a way to measure browser's security. We're not trying to point out individual browsers. I would definitely not be left to Firefox because of this, "Ewe, who use Firefox, and who points out that Mozilla is usually instantly out to patch holes in the browser.

- Everyone has a little job to do

Mozilla argues that they overlap the holes its much faster than Microsoft and the open source mindset means that they are not hiding away hole with closed source companies can find the fix in secret.

- Cenzic report seems to measure security by counting all the holes, and we've been pretty clear that it is a bad counting method, "says Jonathan Nightingale of Mozilla by email to Computer World's international news service.

Ewe from Cenzic also believe Firefox 'lots of holes in part can be washed, your browser is growing in popularity.

- Now you are accelerating, you are more vulnerable, "he says.

The reason for all the holes in Safari, a browser that only four percent market share, he puts on the Iphone, where a whole bunch vulnerabilities have been found.

Ewe will matter that people should focus on the overall picture rather than the application that has the most errors.

- In general, you can argue that all browsers have a need for improvement.

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