Study shows 637 million users at risk due to old browsers
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A group of researchers on Tuesday said 637 million web users are surfing with outdated internet browsers and are, therefore, at greater risk of web-based attacks.
Using data collected from Google web searches and security firm Secunia, the researchers — Stefan Frei of ETH, Zurich; Thomas Dübendorfer of Google; Gunter Ollmann of IBM ISS; and Martin May of ETH, Zurich — analysed the browsers used in a report. The researchers aimed to understand why so many recent attacks by criminal hackers have been aimed at the browser, and why those attacks have been so successful.
Overall, the authors found that roughly 40 percent of users were utilising insecure versions of web browsers. Among the least upgrade-compliant were users of Internet Explorer (IE), which currently dominates the internet-browser market.
The data was collected in mid-June 2008. Of the users, 78 percent employed IE, 16 percent Firefox, three percent Safari, and 0.8 percent Opera. The percentage of these users who were running the latest version of their browser was 52 percent for IE, 92 percent for Firefox, 70 percent for Safari, and 90 percent for Opera.
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news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39442127,00.htm
Good stuff to show your clients who keep insisting on IE6 support
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- GollumX
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The research is incomplete... it fails to mention the tens of thousands of web developers all over the world who face the very real risk of heart failure, divorce, and other stress related issues brought on by trying to make their websites look the way they should in IE! >
Good info Andy, thanks for the link. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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GollumX wrote:
The research is incomplete... it fails to mention the tens of thousands of web developers all over the world who face the very real risk of heart failure, divorce, and other stress related issues brought on by trying to make their websites look the way they should in IE! >
Good info Andy, thanks for the link.
i totally agree!
thanks andy for posting!! - Kat05 / QA Lead & Support / Germany
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In the same vein, we have savethedevelopers!!!!
www.savethedevelopers.org/
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Say NO to IE!!
thanks Andy. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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