39 2006 security status: Internet Explorer vs Mozilla Firefox
Monday 22nd January, 2007
The "Security Fix" blog on the Washington Post website compared the relative security of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox during 2006:
... analysis found that for 284 days in 2006, bad guys were either exploiting critical, unpatched security holes in IE or blueprints for said instructions were published online for any criminals to use. In contrast, the data showed that there just nine days in 2006 in which exploit code was available for similarly serious, unpatched security holes in Mozilla's Firefox browser.
These statistics are shocking. There's not a lot more which can be said about them; one can only guess as to the reasons behind Microsoft's apparent lack of commitment to security for Internet Explorer. However, let me represent this data for you graphically:
It just seems unreal.