“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.
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.