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dimarts, 20 / setembre / 2005 |
[News.com] Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE. Segons un estudi realitzat per Symantec, els navegadors web basats en Mozilla són potencialment més vulnerables als atacs que no pas l'Internet Explorer de Microsoft. L'existència de més problemes coneguts en aquest últim és conseqüència, segons Symantec, de que senzillament és més conegut pels atacants.
Mozilla Web browsers are potentially more vulnerable to attack than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a Symantec report.
But the report, released Monday, also found that hackers are still focusing their efforts on IE.
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According to the report, 25 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for the Mozilla browsers during the first half of 2005, "the most of any browser studied," the report's authors stated. Eighteen of these flaws were classified as high severity.
"During the same period, 13 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for IE, eight of which were high severity," the report noted.
The average severity rating of the vulnerabilities associated with both IE and Mozilla browsers in this period was classified as "high", which Symantec defined as "resulting in a compromise of the entire system if exploited."
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Symantec admitted that "at the time of writing, no widespread exploitation of any browser except Microsoft Internet Explorer has occurred," but added that it "expects this to change as alternative browsers become increasingly widely deployed."
There is one caveat: Symantec counts only those security flaws that have been confirmed by the vendor. According to security monitoring company Secunia, there are 19 security issues that Microsoft still has to deal with for Internet Explorer, while there are only three for Firefox.
L'informe al que fa referència és l'Internet Security Threat Report.
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