Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% 137
An anonymous reader writes Bromium Labs analyzed public vulnerabilities and exploits from the first six months of 2014. The research determined that Internet Explorer vulnerabilities have increased more than 100 percent since 2013, surpassing Java and Flash vulnerabilities. Web browsers have always been a favorite avenue of attack, but we are now seeing that hackers are not only getting better at attacking Internet Explorer, they are doing it more frequently.
Eh? (Score:5, Informative)
I can't see where the 100% figure comes from. The report says that IE attacks hit a record high in exploited zero-days in the first half of 2013, but they're now much lower.
Re:New Microsoft CEO (Score:4, Informative)
Re:No actual numbers (Score:4, Informative)
Looking at the graphic the raw number looks like about 130 for all of 2013, and slightly more for the first half of 2014.
Re:Odd Conclusion (Score:5, Informative)
We seem to be having a lot of astroturf from MS today.
IE Exploits.
2013 = 130
H1-2014 = 133.
Bearing in mind the year vs half-year, that's a 104% increase. So no it's not an odd conclusion at all.
Re:Surprise! (Score:4, Informative)
Neither can IE. It has a ~5-10% increase.
The summary is absolute garbage; it implies that the number of vulnerabilities is doubled (it isnt), that IE security is worse (but public exploits are reduced from last year, and mean time to patch is vastly reduced), and that its always been worse (last year, Chrome and Firefox had more exploits than IE).
Unsurprisingly, everyone here took the bait.