>"A report by Secunia finds the vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox greatly >outnumbered those in Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and other browsers in >2008"
1) How did Secunia count vulnerabilities? The report does not say. The thrust of the "Letter from the CEO" is that Secunia wants to expand its market to non-Microsoft shops. This "report" is from their marketing department, not a research department. 2) How did the reporter report on the Secunia report? The reporter could have mentioned other interesting items from the report, but chose not to. For example Secunia counted 9 "zero-day" vulnerabilities for IE and 3 for everybody else. They also counted 366 Active-X vulnerabilities and just 1 for FireFox plug-ins. The report is very short. I wonder why the reporter chose to provide such a narrow picture. Does eWeek have a bandwidth problem and is telling reporters to keep their stories short? Probably not. If I had the time I would look at other stories by this reporter to look for bias. The 366 Active-X vulnerabilities in 2008 certainly caught my eye. They is way worse than any other product in the report. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
