Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Mozilla fires back at Symantec over security report

Mozilla has reacted to a Symantec report issued on Monday which said serious vulnerabilities were being found in Mozilla's browsers faster than in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Mozilla hits back: Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, hit back by claiming on Monday that when a vulnerability is found Mozilla's "ability to react, find a solution and put it into the user's hands is better than Microsoft." "Basically their vulnerabilities are more critical. With Firefox — yeah, you have holes, but they're much less serious." Nitot likened the differences between Firefox and IE vulnerabilities as being like injuries: "Which would you prefer, to have a broken finger, or your head ripped off?"

read more | digg story UPDATE: 9/21/05 - Yesterday Mozilla released version 1.0.7. From the site: Firefox 1.0.7 is a security and stability release. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. Get the upgrade here

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