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New web browser security information

A lot of new statistical information has been added to the Web browser security summary resource. Since security is a significant factor in deciding which browser to use, this resource tries to present the situation from as many different angles as possible.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at 14:58 UTC and is filed under Security summary, Web Devout. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “New web browser security information”

  1. FreewheelinFrank Says:

    May 13th, 2006 at 06:33 UTC

    Thanks David,

    When you talk about vulnerabilities discovered in the wild, are these exploits being used to auto-install spyware, such as the recent CreateTextRange vulnerability in IE?

    I don’t remember reading any reports of Firefox being exposed to such attacks. What is the source of these data?

    Cheers,

    FwF

    Posted using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 on Windows.

  2. David Hammond Says:

    May 16th, 2006 at 07:37 UTC

    In the security summary page, “In the wild” vulnerabilities are those that were publicly known before a patch was available. Those values are not related to public exploits.

    Posted using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 on Linux.