Google’s Online Security Blog is pointing us to a recently published presentation titled - “Understanding the Web Browser Threat”
You can have a look at the report or the Google official post about it.
But the comments are more interesting -
Shawn K. Hall said…
That’s all fine and dandy, but here in the good ol’ US of A well more than 50% of the country still has no access to broadband, and the broadband services they CAN use (like Hughes) actually have policies in place that make patching a machine that’s been offline more than a few months (or has never had patches applied) near impossible.It’s simply absolute folly to rely on security on the users’ end. As hosts, webmasters and industry professionals, we simply have to prevent them from accessing dangerous content (like through DNS filters), or by being far more aggressive in filtering user-supplied content to our sites, thus preventing that avenue of attack.
Shawn K. Hall said…
It’s also disingenuous to claim that IE7 or FF3 are the ‘most current’ versions. Quite a few of my local clients are still using Windows 2000, Windows 98, and OSX 10.2 - which do not support ‘current’ versions of IE or Firefox.What does Google say to that ?
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