Symantec’s threat report reveals information about the number of vulnerabilities discovered for popular browsers:
- Internet Explorer 38
- Mozilla (including Firefox) 47
- Opera 7
- Safari 12
It also breaks down how many attacks each browser attracted:
- Internet Explorer 69%
- Mozilla (including Firefox) 20%
- Opera 5.5%
- Safari 5.5%
Broadly speaking, these figures roughly correspond to the popularity of the different browsers. On Get Safe Online, browsers break down as follows:
- Internet Explorer 86% (31% of which are using IE 7.0 already)
- Mozilla (including Firefox) 10%
- Opera 2%
- Safari 0.5%
- All others 1.5%
Do popular browsers attract more attacks or is there no correlation between popularity and vulnerability? Hard to tell. We’re not biased. We have advice for all of them:
- Use Internet Explorer safely
- Secure the Firefox web browser
- Use the Opera web browser safely
- Protect your Mac
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