Competition Among Browsers: Keep the System Secure
By Jason on March 24, 2010 | Vulnerabilities, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, German government
As browsers are competing for their places at the market they have to think about their security issues too. Recently increased demand for them to provide users a safe computing experience.
It is not a big news that few popular browsers were found to have huge security flaws. The most vulnerable seemed to be Internet Explorer (IE). Firefox likewise did their own headlines about protection flaws. It was enough for to prompt the German government to issue a warning against Mozilla .
Opera and Safari browsers are no better at all. Even if they both have already been patched, Charlie Miller, a well-known security expert, states he has more Safari zero-day flaws to publicly reveal, which is not good for Safari and Google Chrome.
Trend Micro researcher Rajiv Motwani claims: “Apart from the above-mentioned flaws, we cannot even begin to guess how many are currently being exploited in the wild. We also forget that a large number of users do not actually patch their systems.” Motwani also reveals that there are many reasons why users do not patch their system flaws, such as the nonavailability of a centralized automatic update system, a vendor-dependent patch release cycle, and the perception that a traditional antivirus software can protect them against all kinds of threats.
Hence, users have to patch their systems and should use updated versions of all security products and ensure that definitions are up-to-date at all times. It is also important to be wary of links, files, and downloadable data on social-networking sites that come from unknown sources.
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