04.22.09 - 11:06am
People want to know that they are safe when they browse the web. There are important differences between browsers when it comes to security, and so it’s no surprise to see a growing number of groups out there attempting to compare browsers based on their security record. That’s great news; not only does it help [...]
03.06.09 - 02:50pm
Security metrics are very difficult to do well, and easy to do poorly. For example, take a look at the recent Secunia “2008 Report” (http://secunia.com/gfx/Secunia2008Report.pdf). It tries to break down vulnerabilities reported by browser, and specifically states:
31 vulnerabilities were reported for Internet Explorer (IE 5.x, 6.x, and 7), including those
publicly disclosed prior to [...]
01.17.08 - 06:29pm
Secunia released a report this week that discusses a few aspects of the security landscape for 2007. Techworld ran a story based on this report with this headline: “Red Hat and Firefox more buggy than Microsoft.” While the headline is misleading, the Techworld article actually tells an interesting story.
Counting security vulnerabilities to compare the security [...]
11.30.07 - 10:28pm
Jeff Jones, a director of security strategy at Microsoft published a report today about counting bugs. I blogged a few months ago about why I think counting bugs is less than useful:
Since all software has bugs, it’s more important to consider how long it takes to get a fix out when a security [...]
06.18.07 - 03:35pm
Since all software has bugs, it’s more important to consider how long it takes to get a fix out when a security issue is discovered than it is to count bugs. Number of vulnerabilities identified is a function of how many bugs are present, but is probably more influenced by things like who is [...]