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Microsoft, Mozilla trade punches over browser security
Published December 21st, 2007 in Browser Security, Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Internet Explorer, Mozilla
The feud between Microsoft Corp. and Mozilla Corp. over whose Web browser is more secure heated up again as officials for both companies trotted out statistics to show their application is safer. Jeff Jones, the strategy director in Microsoft’s security technology unit, started the latest bug count battle last Friday, when he posted a report (download PDF) that claimed Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer had been affected by fewer than half as many vulnerabilities in the last three years as Mozilla’s Firefox had.
"Over the past three years, supported versions of Internet Explorer have experienced fewer vulnerabilities and fewer High severity vulnerabilities than Firefox," said Jones in the report, "a result that stands in contrast to early assertions by Mozilla that Firefox ‘won’t harbor nearly as many security flaws as those [in] Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.’" Update: Microsoft, Mozilla trade punches over browser security
