TheSymantec’s twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, found that 47 bugs in Firefox and 38 bugs in Internet Explorer had been discovered in the first six months of this year – up significantly from the 17 and 25 bugs found respectively in the previous six months. Even Apple’s Safari browser saw its bugs double, 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, but not by much. According to the report, 31 percent of attacks during the period targeted more than one browser, and 20 percent took aim at Mozilla’s Firefox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“There is no safe browser,” said Vincent Weafer, senior director with Symantec Security Response.<\/p>\n
Legitimate companies such as 3Com’s Tipping Point and Verisign’s iDefense pay for this information, and there is also a growing black market for exploits. “Everyone has realised that targeting the applications on the desktop is a better way to break into businesses and consumers and steal things than server flaws,” he said.<\/p>\n
Businesses and consumers may both be targets, but home users are the victims in about 86 percent of all attacks, according to Symantec.<\/p>\n
And the US is the biggest source of online attacks, thanks to its large number of compromised machines with broadband connections, Weafer said.<\/p>\n
Microsoft may lag as a browser patcher, but when it comes to operating systems, the company leads the pack, according to Symantec.<\/p>\n
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