How did this report stay unnoticed for 3 weeks? Did "you" choose to put the monocular in front of the blind eye, or what? Or is it, that "we" have chosen not to trust the result of the report? Well, anyway, I have eagerly been waiting for 8 hours to see who would post about this and have some wise words to say. But no-one have spoken, yet, so I guess I will have to do it, even though I have very little real knowledge about the subject - so I will pass it on as 'an info'.
Today CyberNet's email could tell this old news from December 15, 2008:
Firefox tops list of 12 most vulnerable apps
Firefox Considered Most Vulnerable App
Many people I know use Firefox because they’re told it’s the most secure browser, but this report says otherwise. In fact it puts it at the top of the list for being the most vulnerable app of 2008.
Others on the list include Flash, Skype, Norton, and QuickTime.-CyberNet
On this list, number one is not the best, but the worst:
#1 Mozilla Firefox:
In 2008, Mozilla patched 10 vulnerabilities that could be used by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflow, malformed URI links, documents, JavaScript and third party tools.-ZDNet
Read for yourself: >>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2304 <<<
The report was made by Bit9 (http://www.bit9.com/ "The Pioneer and Leader in Application Whitelisting"). Bit9 are partners with Symantec.
Bit9's report, pdf, 274 kb:
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