When more bugs can mean tighter security
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| The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an
| open-source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with
| Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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| Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe, has much to say on the
| differences between Microsoft's and Mozilla's approaches to browser
| development. ZDNet.co.uk caught up with Nitot at the Online Information
| conference in London this week to talk about the security of Firefox and
| Internet Explorer (IE), online privacy and the future of open source.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39291344,00.htm
Related:
Firefox has ‘at least’ 126m users
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| John Lilly, Mozilla’s Chief Operating Officer, has estimated that Firefox,
| the company’s popular open source web browser, is used by at least 126
| million people aound the world.
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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/12/03/firefox_has_at_least_126m_users/1
Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Metrics
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| This is a small subset of all the vulnerabilities, because the
| vulnerabilities that are found through the QA process and the vulnerabilities
| that are found by the security folks they engage as contractors to perform
| penetration testing are fixed in service packs and major updates. For
| Microsoft this makes sense because these fixes get the benefit of a full test
| pass which is much more robust for a service pack or major release than it is
| for a security update.
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http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2007/11/30/critical-vulnerability-in-microsoft-metrics/
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
Skeletons in Microsoft’s Patch Day closet
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| This is the first time I’ve seen Microsoft prominently admit to silently
| fixing vulnerabilities in its bulletins — a controversial practice that
| effectively reduces the number of publicly documented bug fixes (for those
| keeping count) and affects patch management/deployment decisions.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=316
Beware of undisclosed Microsoft patches
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| Forget for a moment whether Microsoft is throwing off patch counts
| that Microsoft brass use to compare its security record with those
| of its competitors. What do you think of Redmond’s silent patching
| practice?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=527
Microsoft is Counting Bugs Again
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| Sorry, but Microsoft's self-evaluating security counting isn't really a
| good accounting.
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| [...]
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| The point: Don't count on security flaw counting. The real flaw is
| the counting.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/microsoft_is_counting_bugs_again.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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