FYI: More Flaws in Firefox Than IE, Symantec Says News Story by Todd R. Weiss
SEPTEMBER 26, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - In its semiannual report about Internet security threats, released last week, IT security vendor Symantec Corp. said the open-source Firefox Web browser had more confirmed vulnerabilities than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer did in the first six months of the year. But Symantec and security analysts said the vulnerability data doesn't necessarily mean that Firefox is less secure than its proponents have claimed or that Internet Explorer is a safer browser than many users believe it to be.
Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec reported that during the first half of 2005, 25 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for Firefox and other browsers based on the Mozilla open-source technology, including 18 flaws classified as highly severe. During the same period, Microsoft confirmed 13 holes in Internet Explorer, eight of which were deemed to be highly severe, according to Symantec.
And just last week, the Mozilla Foundation released a new version of Firefox that includes fixes for two critical security bugs that were discovered this month.
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