Security Through Obscurity May Have Some Truth
April 27th 2008 14:12
Having said that I think it is becoming more and more obvious, if Microsoft’s software was ever less secure it was not because of poor software practices but rather the obscurity of its competitors. Unfortunately for the open source community they can no longer just talk as such software as Firefox becomes more and more mainstream.
Now after years of learning from mistakes Microsoft seems to have created a fairly solid package, there is yet to be a major security breach for any of Microsoft’s newer software and all the while the security holes in competing software such as Firefox and Safari to Microsoft's Internet Explorer keep adding and adding.
Many people are switching from Internet Explorer to alternative browsers such as Firefox and Safari. Though that might make them feel more secure, the shift has also opened new doors for bad guys.
Case in point: We have no IE bugs to report this month, but both Firefox and Safari have been hit hard.
Case in point: We have no IE bugs to report this month, but both Firefox and Safari have been hit hard.
Hackers Focus Efforts on Firefox, Safari
Something tells me lots of hobbyist Firefox/Safari fanboy hackers are going to go hard after Internet Explorer to even things up before the month is out. But we'll see.
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