“Hackers are hitting paydirt in their search for browser bugs,” Robert McMillan reports for Macworld UK.
“According to Symantec’s twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, hackers found 47 bugs in Mozilla’s open-source browsers and 38 bugs in Internet Explorer (IE) during the first six months of this year. That’s up significantly from the 17 Mozilla and 25 IE bugs found in the previous six months,” McMillan reports.
“Even Apple’s Safari browser saw its bugs double, jumping from six in the last half of 2005 to 12 in the first half of 2006. Opera was the only browser tracked by Symantec that saw the number of vulnerabilities decline. Opera bugs dropped from nine to seven during the period,” McMillan reports. “While Internet Explorer remained the most popular choice of attackers, no one is invulnerable. According to the report, 31 per cent of attacks during the period targeted more than one browser, and 20 per cent targeted Firefox.”
Full article here.
Bugs targeted a bag of beef jerky that I had in the pantry. It is the most popular brand of jerky, so that’s probably why it got hit.
I think SYMANTEC’s got a bug up its ASS. After all, knowing that they’re becoming less and less relevant with each passing day . . .
And by the way, Bill Clinton did NOT go berserk in that interview on Fox.
when you here that the number of bugs doubled for Safari, that was concerning…However, 12 compared to 47 is not that bad
Bill WHO?
your bugs doubled to 12 while IE got only 38!!!!!
now i know i am smart to stay on windows where there are viruses.
Yesterdays yesterday man.
Funny!
Symantec desperately trying get some business from Mac users.
You won’t get a penny from me….twats
I have a bag of “premium” beef jerky in my pantry. Right next to the “most popular”.
However, since most people don’t appreciate the superiority of the premium brand, the bugs walk right past it, to the most popular brand (which, incidentally, next to 2 other brands of jerky that mostly only “scientific” types eat, is the only other brand on the market).
Unfortunately, it tastes like shit, but for some reason people eat it without question.
The bugs all eat their beef jerky, and still, they try to poke fun at my brand.
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What Fox interview, is Bill Clinton still living? More importantly, what does that have to do with this?
Do any of you actually use Opera?
I tried it, and its a little different than what I am used to. Is it that much safer? If it is, I’d be willing to switch and deal with the learning curve.
Unless Bill Clinton is getting a BJ from some fat intern, I don’t want to hear about him. That’s the only relevancy he has remaining.
Come onnnn . . . Bill Clinton’s such a horny douchebag he makes yours truly seem like your friendly neighborhood priest on sabbatical.
Yeh-heh—
Hey, waitaminute . . .
While Safari can have bugs, which are usually closed by updates that, while they may not quick enough to suit some of us, they do not affect the OSX operating system.
That is in contrast the “other” operating system, Windows, I believe they call it, where Internet Explorer can repeatedly allow hackers to mess with the operating system.
One would think Symantec would be aware of that and make it clear.
Yeah, right.
Surely it’s the severity of the bug that matters? If IE had 2000 irrelevant bugs and Safari had 1 major security flaw, which would be worse? Not that I’m suggesting that is the case, but the point is, bug numbers in themselves are an irrelevant statistic.
Clinton’s got bugs…scabies.
It depends what “is” means. Slick Willie.
Given history, what are the odds that Safari would have 1 major security flaw, and IE would have 2000 irrelevant bugs?
I think history has aready answered that question.
Safari on my Macbook has been buggy..gee this is interesting..
I use Opera @ work on Winblows and Safari @ home.
We all need to completely ignore a handful of posters that attempt to turn EVERY thread into a political banter.
As with Dvorak links–just ignore them.
It’s true, Bill Clinton was furiously using Safari with a bug up his ass….
yeah clinton made the fox news attempted ambush look fsckin stupid. he tore them a new one and they deserve it. i just wish he had done it to hannity or that asshole o’reilly.
Safari bugs double
Hate to tell you I told you so.
The “fella’s” are hard at work on iTunes 7, lots of exploits there that we will hear about a few months from now.
Apple doesn’t check their code enough, but it’s a trick copied from Microsoft to force people to upgrade their software, which then Apple bundles “more features” and bloat, prematurly hobbling your hardware.
iTunes 7 is bloated and buggy beyond belief.
Mac OS X security is a joke if the apps are exploitable.
12 Safari bugs: one bug for each supported image format whose maliciously-malformed file could crash the underlying WebKit. Yeah, really bad stuff there.
I use Opera on the Mac. I love the zoom feature and the bookmarks down the left side of the window- always one-click away from where I want to go (Safari has 1 click in the bar, but how many bookmarks can you realistically get in there?).
Opera is GREAT!
so what’s the most secure browser for the Mac? Safari 2? 1.x? Camino? Opera? Firefox? Does anymone have an answer?
I am personally disappointed that Clinton didn’t take out his light sabre and off Wallace’s head in one smooth stroke.
In fact, I would be willing to buy a Windows PC just to run a game where Bill and Hillary destroy GOP lying scum, incompetent politically-appointed cronies, pants-wetting rightwing draft dodgers, homophobic psuedo-christians, and reality-challenged morons who play “journalists” on TV.
I could play that game all day.
Ha! Go Opera! Still the safest and most award-winning browser for any platform!
Yeah, Clinton parsed the meaning of “is,” while Bush tears fingernails off. Ooo, he big, bad tough guy!
I used opera almost exclusively for PC and often for Mac. Opera is well worth a spin. it got a bum rap for having a pay model and a free model (with an advertising display) about the same time Firefox was getting off the ground. Firefox became the media darling at a time when it couldn’t hold a candle to opera. Now Opera has no ad banner is free now across the board, now firefox and safari are closer to Opera, but it still excels at many things over other browsers.
“According to Symantec’s twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, hackers found 47 bugs in Mozilla’s open-source browsers. . . .”
Symantec uses the plural “browsers,” implying that more than one platform version by Mozilla is full of holes. But there is no breakdown of browsers nor of platforms.
Firefox alone covers at least three: Mac, ‘Doze and Linux. SeaMonkey is another browser. So is Camino. And there are any number of variants covering all of them. How many holes in the ‘Doze version vs. the Mac’s and Linux’s of Firefox alone? What about SeaMonkey? How many holes in Camino? (Probably none. Symantec probably never bothered to look.)
Because Symantec says nothing of this, the entire “report” should be considered nothing more than another truckful of its made-to-measure FUD.
the level of disinformation, propaganda, hatred, and just plain stupidity from the liberal commenters here is staggering. I thought liberals were supposed to love everybody and not be judgemental. Oh well, there goes that myth.
. . . it’s only the Americans. They think everyone from Akrotiri to Zimbabwe cares about them tossing their petty political slings and arrows at each other over a president out of office for six years and interviewed by some presenter on an obscure TV programme — on a board ostensibly meant for Apple news.
So, what do you think Gordon Brown’s chances are of moving into the rest of 10 Downing Street?
I don’t think the Scottish Labourites would be adverse. Jacques Chirac, of course, is keeping a respectful silence.
to our colleagues across the pond :
does anyone know what happened in the golf this weekend? Bill Clinton was there, he knows.