40% of surfers don't bother with browser security updates - Club CDFreaks

**platinumsword** · 02-07-2008

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A recent collaborative study between Google, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and IBM offers new insight into how many people surfing the web are doing so safely. According to the report, a clear majority of users (some 59 percent) are using the latest version of their preferred Internet browser—but that still leaves 40.1 percent who aren't. That's a troublingly high number for anyone working in IT security, given that virtually all (89.4 percent) of the vulnerabilities reported in 2007 were remote exploits. Not all of these exploits specifically targeted the web browser, but it's become the target of choice for an increasingly large percentage of all attacks. Proper browser security is therefore of paramount concern.

Link: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...y-updates.html

*samlar* · 03-07-2008

Yes and some people still no not have a firewall or anti virus I just fixed a computer with way over 100 viruses on it.

03-07-2008	#2 (permalink)
samlar CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: here Posts: 1,627	Re: 40% of surfers don't bother with browser security updates Yes and some people still no not have a firewall or anti virus I just fixed a computer with way over 100 viruses on it.

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