Sunday, March 12, 2006

Slashdot | Symantec Rethinks Firefox vs IE Vulnerabilities

Slashdot | Symantec Rethinks Firefox vs IE Vulnerabilities
Last September security software vendor Symantec issued a report claiming IE had fewer critical flaws than Firefox and thus was more secure. Well, it seem they have now rethought that position. 'How we did it before wasn't a fair comparison,' said Oliver Friedrichs, the senior manager of Symantec's security response group. 'It wasn't an apples to apples comparison.' The key was vendor acknowledged critical vulnerabilities. Thus, if Microsoft (or the Mozilla Foundation) didn't agree it was critical, then it didn't get counted.

No comments: