Firefox users should read

[Sival]

Ran across this in my daily perusal of CRN.

http://www.crn.com/nl/crnupdate/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=189600222

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Although in fairness, you should probably have pointed out that it was an old version of Fx that was listed as insecure, and that v1.5 (which has been out for a long while now) didn't even make it onto the top 15.

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[ChrisHunt]

What a load of tosh.

Firefox, iTunes, and Skype were the top 3 applications in a list of 15 with the most security vulnerabilities...

Except that when you read the report in question, or even just the rest of the article, it becomes clear that it's not a Top 15 Insecure apps at all - it's 15 apps (some of them old versions) commonly downloaded by end-users with apparent security problems.

So if there were, let's imagine, a web browser pre-loaded on users' PCs with security holes you could drive a bus through sideways, it wouldn't appear in this "list of 15 with the most security vulnerabilities".

I suspect a list of all commonly used software would have a very different top 15...

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[GUJUm0deL]

Surprised that IE didn't make that list. Well, MS products in general to be exact.

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