Top 10 Most Vulnerable Application 2008
Guess what? Mozilla Firefox top the list as the most vulnerable application in 2008!
According to application whitelisting and control vendor Bit9, Firefox top the list of 12 widely used desktop applications that gone through critical security vulnerabilities in 2008 which potentially lead to remote code execution attacks.
Other applications that are “lucky” to be picked by Bit9 includes Adobe Flash and Acrobat, Apple iTunes, Symantac products and Skype to name a few.
The Top 10 (12 actually) Most Vulnerable Application list:
- Mozilla Firefox
- Adobe Flash and Adobe Acrobat
- EMC VMware Player,Workstation and other products
- Sun Java JDK and JRE, Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
- Apple QuickTime, Safari and iTunes
- Symantec Norton products (all flavors 2006 to 2008)
- Trend Micro OfficeScan
- Citrix Products
- Aurigma Image Uploader, Lycos FileUploader
- Skype
- Yahoo Assistant
- Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger
For a full report, see Bit9’s official report here (pdf).
via ZDNET.com
