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Study: The Year's Top-10 Web Application Vulnerabilities
Web Browser Vulnerabilities: IE Safest?
The report also highlighted vulnerabilities in Web browsers themselves. It cited Microsoft Internet Explorer as having the fewest "reported vulnerabilities" during the final quarter of 2007, beating out Safari, Opera, and Firefox for the first time. Khera said he believes that Microsoft is "putting the most resources in fixing their vulnerabilities."
The Opera browser was responsible for the highest percentage of reported vulnerabilities by major type, at 38 percent, followed by Firefox at 32 percent. Safari had 15 percent, followed by IE at 10 percent.
Information for the browser vulnerability portion of the study was compiled from information reported by developers, users, researchers, browser vendors themselves.
Further information about the study and a downloadable version of the study itself can be found at Cenzic's Web site.
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