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Study: The Year's Top-10 Web Application Vulnerabilities
3/3/2008
"There are a lot more vulnerabilities in those applications including back-doors that very companies are checking for. The best advice we can give is that corporations and government agencies need to assess all their applications on a continuous basis so they can find these vulnerabilities and either fix them right away or find another way to block hackers. Companies can also start with a remotely managed assessment service if they are not ready to install a software solution in house."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.
About the author: Dave Nagel is the executive editor for 1105 Media's educational technology online publications and electronic newsletters. He can be reached at dnagel@1105media.com.
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