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80% of Browsers Found To Be At Risk of Attack

  • 18-02-2011 07:07PM
    #1
    Dude111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭


    http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1740227/80-
    About eight out of every 10 Web browsers run by consumers are vulnerable to attack by exploits of already-patched bugs, a security expert said Thursday. The poor state of browser patching stunned Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, which presented data from the company's free BrowserCheck service Wednesday at RSA. 'I really thought it would be lower,' Kandek said. BrowserCheck scans Windows, Mac and Linux machines for vulnerable browsers, as well as up to 18 browser plug-ins, from Adobe's Flash to Windows Media Player. [more]
    When i goto thier page it says im running an unsupported Browser :D (Im running IE6 (MyIE2 isnt listed in my UA))

    https://browsercheck.qualys.com


    Someone else running Seamonkey also got the same results..

    Thier UA > SeaMonkey: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18pre) Gecko/20110212 SeaMonkey/2.0.13pre

    Doesnt seem to reliable a site! (Cant detect a browser correctly)


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  • #2
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    No suprises there.. even patched browsers are still not enough, as it's usually the human element that is vulnerable.


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