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Firefox Buggier, But IE Takes 9 Times Longer To Patch
Published September 27th, 2006 in All Categories, Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Security
Browsers are the target of choice for hackers, Symantec said Monday in its bi-annual Internet 
threat report, which backed that up with data showing vulnerabilities for IE, Firefox, and Safari have increased in the last six months.
According to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, which was released Monday, 7 out of every 10 new vulnerabilities uncovered from January through June were bugs in Web applications. That’s not good news, said Symantec, especially since the total number of vulnerabilities found in the six-month period hit 2,249, an 18 percent jump over the second half of 2005.
"The high number is due in part to the popularity of Web applications and to the relative ease of discovering vulnerabilities in Web applications compared to other platforms," went the report.
Bugs in browsers are the most significant of those Web application vulnerabilities. Here, too, the first half of 2006 was bad news for users, said Vincent Weafer, senior director of the Cupertino, Calif. security company’s response team. [tag]Firefox[/tag][tag]IE[/tag][tag]Patch[/tag]Firefox Buggier, But IE Takes 9 Times Longer To Patch - Internet News by InformationWeek
